Waylaid

He was waylaid by a band of guerrillas.

I was waylaid by a colleague on Friday, which meant I missed the meeting.

I'm afraid that, if my guard is not maintained, I will be waylaid.

I avoid eating lunch in the cafeteria because I get waylaid any time I hear some juicy gossip.

The detective suspected someone had waylaid the messenger before he could deliver the letter.

I tried to get home quickly, but hunger waylaid me at the bakery window.

I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage alone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already 'waylaid – yourself and I will not be there. And when they have the booty, if you and I do not rob them – cut this head off from my shoulders.

My beloved reader has no doubt in the course of his experience been waylaid by many such a luckless companion