respawns

Verb

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

1. 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
2. (weapon or other pickup, or enemy) To reappear at its spawn point.
3. 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
4. (Internet) 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

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