respawn
/ɹɪˈspɔːn/
respawn verb: to spawn again.
Verb
respawn (third-person singular simple present respawns, present participle respawning, simple past and past participle respawned)
- To spawn again.
- This diminishes even further the remote chance of the fish surviving to respawn.1970, Idaho Wildlife Review, volumes 23-29, page 161
- To reappear at its spawn point.
- To re-enter play after being killed, often where the game was last saved.
- 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 24 Apr 2014
- 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 24 Apr 2014
- 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."
- “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, →ISSN
Noun
respawn (plural respawns)
- The reappearance of an item or enemy; the situation where something is respawned.
- 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
- The act of permanently shifting awareness or existence to a different reality, frequently associated with the UGSC (Underground Subliminal Community).
Antonyms of respawn
Forms of respawn
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | respawns |
| present participle | respawning |
| past participle | respawned |
| past | respawned |
| Noun | |
| plural | respawns |
Origin of respawn
From re- + spawn.
Words formed from respawn
Words that rhyme with respawn
Questions about respawn
- What does respawn mean?
- Respawn means to spawn again.
- What part of speech is respawn?
- Respawn can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce respawn?
- Respawn is pronounced /ɹɪˈspɔːn/.
- What is the past tense of respawn?
- The past tense of respawn is respawned.
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