Definition of "respawn"

respawn

/ɹɪˈspɔːn/

verb
third-person singular simple present respawns, present participle respawning, simple past and past participle respawned
1. (zoology) To spawn again.
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  This diminishes even further the remote chance of the fish surviving to respawn.
  1970, Idaho Wildlife Review, volumes 23-29, page 161
2. (video games, of a collected item, weapon or other pickup, or enemy) To reappear at its spawn point.
3. (video games, of a character) To re-enter play after being killed, often where the game was last saved.
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  Some top 100 websites are circumventing user deletion of HTTP cookies by respawning them using Flash cookies with identical values, […]
  2009 September 17, Pinsent Masons, “Hidden Flash cookies track even opt-out users on web's biggest sites”, in Out-law‎, retrieved 2014-04-24
  How and why he gets stuck in this constant respawn cycle is a bit unclear, […]
  2014 March 25, Angela Watercutter, “Tom Cruise Respawns Into Alien War in New Edge of Tomorrow Trailer”, in Wired‎, retrieved 2014-04-24
  “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.
  2024 April 3, Dan Milmo, quoting Mark Borkowski, “How much is Elon Musk to blame for Tesla sales slip?”, in The Guardian‎
noun
plural respawns
1. (video games) The reappearance of an item or enemy; the situation where something is respawned.
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  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.
  2014, Jeff W. Murray, C# Game Programming Cookbook for Unity 3D, page 339

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