🏆 To totally defeat 💻 To hack 😓 Defeated

pwn

9.9

Being defeated and humiliated, often in games or after hacking

adjective
/poʊn/

Slang

: humillado

He felt pwned after losing the match.

Examples

After that game, she was completely pwned.
The hacker left the system pwn and exposed to further attacks.
After the match, the losing team felt completely pwn by their opponents' skill.
He joked that his character was so pwn he could not recover in the game.
After their performance in the tournament, the team felt completely pwn by their opponents' superior strategy.
In the online game, he realized he had been pwn when he couldn't regain any health after the battle.
She felt pwn during the last round when her character was easily defeated by a more experienced player.

Synonyms

owned

vspwn

Slang

9.8

Completely defeated and made to look foolish, often in a game or online

applies to the same defeat but also to computer security breaches

Antonyms

victorious

62 3.7

A person who has won a contest or match and feels proud

empowered

Formal

5 4.2

Having official power to make decisions

How Defeated

obliterated

6.5

pwn

Slang

9.9

humiliated

Offensive

1 3.7

defeated

2.0

Surface Forms

pwn positive

Etymology

Pwn as an adjective comes from the verb pwn, itself a misspelling of own, and it carries the idea of being 'owned' or defeated. If something or someone is pwn, they are 'defeated' or made powerless, which is why people use it to mean total loss or humiliation.