Respawn

Quick meaning: Respawn is a verb meaning (zoology) To spawn again.

Meaning

(zoology) To spawn again.

More Meanings

1. (video games, of a collected item, weapon or other pickup, or enemy) To reappear at its spawn point.
2. (video games, of a character) To re-enter play after being killed, often where the game was last saved.
3. (video games) The reappearance of an item or enemy; the situation where something is respawned.
4. (Internet slang) The act of permanently shifting awareness or existence to a different reality, frequently associated with the UGSC (Underground Subliminal Community).
5. (Internet slang) In reality shifting and subliminal communities, to permanently leave one's current reality (often through a perceived severance of ties or, controversially, through physical death) to "re-enter" or reincarnate into a "desired reality."

Example Sentences

How and why he gets stuck in this constant respawn cycle is a bit unclear, […]

This diminishes even further the remote chance of the fish surviving to respawn.

Some top 100 websites are circumventing user deletion of HTTP cookies by respawning them using Flash cookies with identical values, […]

“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.

Word Forms

• respawns
• respawning
• respawned

Antonyms for respawn

Common opposites include despawn.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rebreed, resporulate, repop, retrocopulate, reproliferate, repivot.

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