Usually means: Ambushing someone unexpectedly on route.
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  1. waylaying: Merriam-Webster
  2. waylaying: Collins English Dictionary
  3. waylaying: Vocabulary.com
  4. waylaying: Wordnik
  5. waylaying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. waylaying: Wiktionary
  7. waylaying: Dictionary.com
  8. Waylaying: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Waylaying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Waylaying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. waylaying: FreeDictionary.org
  12. waylaying: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. waylaying: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act by which somebody is waylaid; an ambush.

Similar:
lie in wait, ambush, lurk, ambuscade, bushwhack, scupper, minelaying, lying, imposition, assling, more...

Opposite:
letting pass, allowing to pass, clearing way



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Similar:
lie in wait, ambush, lurk, ambuscade, bushwhack, scupper, minelaying, lying, imposition, assling, more...

Opposite:
letting pass, allowing to pass, clearing way



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