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- verb Present participle of
waylay .
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Examples
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The sport to him, was in waylaying the successful robbers and taking their spoils from them.
Chapter V 2010
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Although we had stocked the cooler to provide for culinary contingencies, such precautions were not essential in waylaying hunger pangs.
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Although we had stocked the cooler to provide for culinary contingencies, such precautions were not essential in waylaying hunger pangs.
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The sport to him, was in waylaying the successful robbers and taking their spoils from them.
Chapter V 1910
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Then the idea of waylaying the pair in the forest had occurred to him.
A Siren Thomas Adolphus Trollope 1851
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What of his bushwhacking and waylaying tactics, the young dogs were afraid to run by themselves.
The Outcast 2010
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Mulcahy and any other employee across the fruited plain have the legal right to organize, and Skico is prohibited from waylaying same.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Snow Job in Aspen Skico Pay Stinkeroo Michael Conniff 2011
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Mulcahy and any other employee across the fruited plain have the legal right to organize, and Skico is prohibited from waylaying same.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Snow Job in Aspen Skico Pay Stinkeroo Michael Conniff 2011
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[T] he Seventies were about as sober as a meths-swilling vagrant waylaying passers-by to tell them that the Archbishop of Canterbury has planted electrodes in his brain.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen » Print 2010
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[T] he Seventies were about as sober as a meths-swilling vagrant waylaying passers-by to tell them that the Archbishop of Canterbury has planted electrodes in his brain.
Book Review: Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010
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