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waylayway‧lay /weɪˈleɪ/ verb (past tense and past participle waylaid) [transitive]  waylayOrigin: 1500-1600 way + lay ‘to set a trap for’ (13-19 centuries) VERB TABLEwaylay |
Present | I, you, we, they | waylay | | he, she, it | waylays | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | waylaid | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have waylaid | | he, she, it | has waylaid | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had waylaid | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will waylay | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have waylaid |
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Present | I | am waylaying | | he, she, it | is waylaying | | you, we, they | are waylaying | Past | I, he, she, it | was waylaying | | you, we, they | were waylaying | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been waylaying | | he, she, it | has been waylaying | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been waylaying | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be waylaying | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been waylaying |
- Thousands of passengers were waylaid by the airline strike.
- Amiss hovered in the gallery, hoping to waylay an informant.
- He waylaid Stella in the paint-frame where she had been sent to boil rabbit glue on the Bunsen burner.
- Her father waylaid Barre-to her chagrin-and boasted about his daughter's talent.
- She had lost count of the number of times she had slapped his hands from her body whenever he waylaid her outside.
- She might just waylay him and hit him with something heavy!
- They came to his home uninvited once or twice and they would waylay him as he emerged from work at the factory.
- Yes, I could be in some danger - and there was an attempt to waylay me today.
► got waylaid Sorry, we got waylaid at the bar. 1if someone waylays you, they stop you when you are going somewhere, for example to attack you or talk to you: They used to waylay him as he came out of the factory.2if you are waylaid, you are delayed when you are doing something – often used humorously to say why you are late: Sorry, we got waylaid at the bar.GRAMMAR Waylay is usually passive in this meaning. |