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despawn

verb
/diːˈspɔːn/UK

Etymology

From de- + spawn.

  1. derived from expandere — “stretch out; spread out”
  2. derived from espandre
  3. derived from espaundre
  4. inherited from spawnen
  5. prefixed as despawn — “de + spawn”

Definitions

  1. To be instantaneously destroyed or removed.

    • A mob will immediately despawn if ever there is no player within 128 blocks of it.
    • The helicopter despawned shortly after take-off, leaving the player in an unexpected free fall.
    • The game despawns the enemies after you kill them 15 times or so.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for despawn. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA