respawn

re- +‎ spawn

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

1. (zoology) To spawn again.
   • 1970, Idaho Wildlife Review (volumes 23-29, page 161)

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

2. (video games, of a collected item, weapon or other pickup) To reappear at its spawn point.
3. (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, …

• despawn

respawn (plural respawns)

1. (video games) The reappearance of an item; the situation where something is respawned.
   • 2014, Jeff W. Murray, C# Game Programming Cookbook for Unity 3D (page 339)

     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.

• Pawsner, enwraps, pawners, spawner