waylaid

• And once again I was waylaid, this time by a savage attack on my upper arm. —  DearlyDevotedDexter
• He was after a gang of toughs who had just waylaid, robbed, and beaten a man. —  Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography
• Travelers were waylaid, prospectors murdered and in many instances entire families wiped out, their homes becoming their funeral pyres. —  Reminiscences of a Pioneer
• Some of these approached closely to assassination; as in the famous case of Sir John Coventry, who was waylaid, and had his nose slit by some young men of high rank, for a reflection upon the king's theatrical amours. —  The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Vol. I
• One of the guardians had been waylaid, kicked, and beaten, a few evenings before, for some slight grudge. —  Brittany ; Its Byways

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