Synonyms for waylay
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : wey-ley, wey-ley |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈweɪˌleɪ, weɪˈleɪ |
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Définition of waylay
Origin :- "to ambush," 1510s, from way + lay (v.), on model of Middle Low German, Middle Dutch wegelagen "besetting of ways, lying in wait with evil or hostile intent along public ways."
- verb intercept, ambush
- I warn you that I shall lay all manner of traps, waylay your messengers, bribe them.
- Extract from : « The Lure of the Mask » by Harold MacGrath
- The little house was quiet and dark with no one to waylay them.
- Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Detroit » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
- But Rose did not dare, and then there was Martin ready to waylay her.
- Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Detroit » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
- If you can intercept her before she gets there, or waylay her when she leaves, why there you are.
- Extract from : « The Slave of Silence » by Fred M. White
- The huntsmen, hearing of it, stole out privately to waylay him in a snare.
- Extract from : « Fairy Book » by Sophie May
- "I will," cried Paul, hurrying across the corridor to waylay his chum.
- Extract from : « Paul and the Printing Press » by Sara Ware Bassett
- The question is—Have they passed the place, where it was intended to waylay them?
- Extract from : « The Death Shot » by Mayne Reid
- I am ordered to send this berserk with a troop of nineteen men to waylay thee.
- Extract from : « Erling the Bold » by R.M. Ballantyne
- Dick hurried out by the front to waylay Will, but encountered Uncle Abram.
- Extract from : « Menhardoc » by George Manville Fenn
- They began to waylay and butcher white men and women and children.
- Extract from : « Pioneers of the Old South » by Mary Johnston
Antonyms for waylay
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