Waylaid
[,we'led]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Waylay
Edited by Lancelot
Examples
- She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid and searched. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Could they have been waylaid and robbed? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The cross marks the spot where a celebrated troubadour was waylaid and murdered in the fourteenth century. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Twice she has been waylaid. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- My beloved reader has no doubt in the course of his experience been waylaid by many such a luckless companion. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Edited by Lancelot