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to pwn

to pwn

2 9.9
To beat someone completely in a game or contest
  • verb
  • /poʊn/
  • Slang
translation icon : dominar
  • One need only see Cinnamon playing a submissive woman who is dismissed as mere eye candy, walking away with a slight smile when the bad guys' backs were turned; she had just completely pwned everyone in the room.
  • get pwned

Examples

  • These guys are getting pwned Right, playing XBOX that's what's going to pop on my med school application.

  • In the last match, I really pwned my opponent with my superior strategy.

  • However, you were pwned before you posted.

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  • This dude's about to get pwned!

  • 27th - LOL, we pwned them.

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  • Oh, by the way, the 7/7 conspiracists got pwned!

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  • Certainly, the average 8-year-old gamer has Aristotle, as they say, pwned in certain areas, and vice versa.

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  • Seeing an eighty-year-old man around his Xbox 360 yelling "noob" then turning around and saying, "Yeah, I was pwning noobs like that before you were born!"

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  • He was so confident in his skills, but it didn’t take long for me to pwn him in the game.

  • After practicing for weeks, she finally pwned the rival team in the tournament.

Synonyms

to whup
vsto pwn
  • Informal
33 8.6

To beat someone easily in a game or fight

is used especially in online gaming to mean total domination
to whoop
vsto pwn
  • Slang
32 4.2

To beat someone easily in a game or contest

is more tied to online gaming and shows complete domination
to shellack
vsto pwn
  • Informal
3 8.5

To beat someone very badly in a game or match

is used mainly in online gaming and stresses total domination
to wallop
vsto pwn
  • Informal
1 6.7

To beat someone very easily and completely in a game or contest

is used mainly in online gaming rather than general contests
to worf
vsto pwn
  • Jargon
1 9.9

To beat someone in a game or challenge

focuses on online gaming and implies total domination rather than conquest
to woop
vsto pwn
  • Informal
9.9

To beat someone easily in a game or contest

is specifically common online and implies strong domination

How Dominant

to annihilate
  • NSFW
63 7.5
to crush
386 4.7
to pwn
  • Slang
2 9.9
to thrash
6 4.5
to trounce
14 7.5
to beat
1.4

Surface Forms

pwn infinitive
pwning present participle
pwns third person singular
pwned past
pwned past participle

Etymology

Pwn began as a keyboard typo of own when gamers hit the 'p' key by mistake, and it quickly became slang for completely beating someone in a game. So to pwn someone in play is to 'defeat' or dominate them.