respawn

Etymology

From re- +‎ spawn.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈspɔːn/, /ɹiˈspɔːn/
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Rhymes: -ɔːn

Verb

respawn (third-person singular simple present respawns, present participle respawning, simple past and past participle respawned)

(zoology) To spawn again.
- 1970, Idaho Wildlife Review, volumes 23-29, page 161:
  This diminishes even further the remote chance of the fish surviving to respawn.
(video games, of a collected item, weapon or other pickup, or enemy) To reappear at its spawn point.
(video games, of a character) To re-enter play after being killed, often where the game was last saved.
- 2009 September 17, Pinsent Masons, “Hidden Flash cookies track even opt-out users on web's biggest sites”, in Out-law‎, retrieved 24 April 2014:
  Some top 100 websites are circumventing user deletion of HTTP cookies by respawning them using Flash cookies with identical values, […]
- 2014 March 25, Angela Watercutter, “Tom Cruise Respawns Into Alien War in New Edge of Tomorrow Trailer”, in Wired‎, retrieved 24 April 2014:
  How and why he gets stuck in this constant respawn cycle is a bit unclear, […]
- 2024 April 3, Dan Milmo, quoting Mark Borkowski, “How much is Elon Musk to blame for Tesla sales slip?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
  “Everything in this cult of personality is fragile,” Borkowski said, but added that Musk had proven before that he can “re-spawn” when he encountered difficulties.

Antonyms

despawn

Noun

respawn (plural respawns)

(video games) The reappearance of an item or enemy; the situation where something is respawned.
- 2014, Jeff W. Murray, C# Game Programming Cookbook for Unity 3D, page 339:
  The race controller will check for a trigger hit between this player's collider and the start/finish line trigger, but this script has an OnTriggerEnter function to check for triggers used to force a respawn.

Anagrams

Pawsner, enwraps, pawners, repawns, spawner