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respawn

  • /ɹɪˈspɔːn/
  • /ɹiˈspɔːn/

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verb respawns · respawning · respawned

  1. To spawn again. This diminishes even further the remote chance of the fish surviving to respawn.
  2. of a collected item To reappear at its spawn point.
  3. of a character 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, […]
  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.

Opposite: despawn

noun respawns

  1. 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.
  2. Internet The act of permanently shifting awareness or existence to a different reality, frequently associated with the UGSC (Underground Subliminal Community).

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Opposite: despawn

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@misc{respawn_2026,
  title = {respawn},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/respawn},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}