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- verb nonstandard Simple past tense and past participle of
waylay .
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Examples
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It's unfortunate that too many reasonable social initiatives are so easily waylayed in your system; perhaps the sooner it's made into a court case and so, taken out of the usually deadlocked hands of your government the sooner you'll see universal healthcare happen.
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Later on, these same corporate infested predators got HHO generation lost in the world of cold fusion confusion with just enough funding to keep it limping along and waylayed in that fantastical way out there in a way out of the way never-never land world of a seeming, instead of a being; lost into a fantasia of never happenin '!
A Bottom Up Rescue Plan for the Auto, Bank and Mortgage Companies 2008
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Continually waylayed by searches for energy, for food, for ways to survive, and by the quirks of strange territory burgeoning with its own life, both mild and threatening, their journey grew longer and longer by the day.
Flashback Brannon Braga 1996
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Continually waylayed by searches for energy, for food, for ways to survive, and by the quirks of strange territory burgeoning with its own life, both mild and threatening, their journey grew longer and longer by the day.
Flashback Brannon Braga 1996
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Continually waylayed by searches for energy, for food, for ways to survive, and by the quirks of strange territory burgeoning with its own life, both mild and threatening, their journey grew longer and longer by the day.
Flashback Brannon Braga 1996
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He was waylayed by Indians, who with arrows and tomahawks speedily put all the men to death, excepting the leader, who was taken captive.
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Horatio Chapple, an aspiring medical student from the exsclusive Britain, died Friday morning after the bear waylayed the tent he slept in with his friends on a glacier in BBC reported.
NY Daily News ETHAN SACKS 2011
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But Lo! when we had passed the borders and entered the body thereof, to our utter astonishment and dismay, instead of pursuers we found ourselves waylayed by thirty or forty more of the same pale race of white
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The replayed showed that no one pushed Ott. He's a person and just waylayed Cumiskey into Andy.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local JW2 2010
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The deflation process waylayed Japan's recovery because deteriorating balance sheets (balance sheet recession and the paradox of everyone trying to reduce debt) and underminded massive fiscal expenditures.
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