outwitted

noun명사

1. 1

   속음, 꾀에 넘어감 — ‘Outwitted’는 상대의 꾀나 지략에 속아 넘어가거나 앞질림을 당했다는 뜻이다. 성경에서는 사탄에게 속지 않음, 또는 헤롯이 동방박사들에게 속았음을 표현한다.

   tricked or defeated by someone’s cleverness

   • so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

   • When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.