English

Verb

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

1. (video games, of a collected item, weapon or other pickup) To reappear at its spawn point.
2. (video games, of a character) To re-enter play after being killed.
   • 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:

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

   • 2014 March 25, Angela Watercutter, “Tom Cruise Respawns Into Alien War in New Edge of Tomorrow Trailer”, in Wired, retrieved 2014-04-24:

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

Antonyms

• despawn

Anagrams

• enwraps, pawners, Pawsner, spawner