ZOMBIE

zombie, zombi

(noun) several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur

automaton, zombi, zombie

(noun) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; “only an automaton wouldn’t have noticed”

zombi, zombie, living dead

(noun) a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force

zombi, zombie, snake god

(noun) a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies

zombi, zombie, zombi spirit, zombie spirit

(noun) (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

zombie (plural zombies)

A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.

(voodoo, superstition) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.

(fiction) A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living.

Synonyms: living dead, ghoul, walking dead

(figuratively) An apathetic person.

(figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.

An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.

Synonym: intellectual prostitute

(computing) A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.

(computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.

A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.

(Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.

(Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.

Synonym: Thesaurus:marijuana

(philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.

Synonym: p-zombie

Source: Wiktionary

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