waylaid

She’s particularly focused on underfunded schools in the Altadena area where fire damage has waylaid rebuilding efforts.

In June 2016, the couple allege in court papers, cops waylaid them on a road, handcuffed them and drove them to see “boss Veytia” at a police headquarters in Tepic.

In the summer of 2023, Arbit was waylaid by a right-wing campaign that reduced his detailed proposal to “the pronoun bill” by spreading the debunked idea it would criminalize misgendering someone.

Personally, I’d rather be waylaid in the waiting room of “The Pitt.”

Then in 1967 he was waylaid in his car by criminals who shot him and killed his wife, Pauline.