zombie
Noun: 1. A person who appears to be alive but lacks awareness, animation, or the ability to act independently; an automaton. This refers to a person who moves or acts in a mechanical, lifeless, or apathetic manner, as if controlled by someone else or devoid of their own will. 2. A reanimated corpse in folklore and popular culture. This refers to a dead body brought back to a state of rudimentary life, typically through supernatural means (like magic or a virus), and often depicted as mindless and aggressive. 3. (In Vodou) A supernatural spirit or force; also, a person whose soul is said to have been captured and body controlled by a sorcerer. This is the original religious and folkloric concept from which the popular culture meaning derives. 4. A cocktail made with rum, fruit juice, and liqueurs.
- Noun (Lifeless Person):
- After working 16 hours straight, he moved through the office like a zombie.
- The repetitive job turned the workers into zombies.
- Noun (Reanimated Corpse):
- The movie is about a virus that turns people into zombies.
- In the game, you must defend your base from a horde of zombies.
- Noun (Vodou Concept):
- The story explored the myth of the zombie, a person under the control of a bokor (sorcerer).
- Noun (Cocktail):
- She ordered a zombie, a famously strong rum cocktail.
- "Zombie process" (Computing): A technical term for a child process that has completed execution but still has an entry in the system process table.
- "Zombie company" (Economics): A company that is able to continue operating only through constant financial support (e.g., from banks or government), despite being insolvent.
- "Zombie debt" (Finance): Old debt that is past the statute of limitations for collection but which collectors may still try to recover.
- Zombify (verb): To turn into a zombie; to deprive of vitality or animation.
- The monotonous routine zombified the entire staff.
- Zombie-like (adjective): Resembling or characteristic of a zombie.
- He had a zombie-like stare.
- For the lifeless person sense: automaton, robot, drone, sleepwalker.
- For the reanimated corpse sense: the living dead, the undead, walker (colloquial, from specific media).
- Zombie apocalypse: A common scenario in fiction where civilization collapses due to a widespread outbreak of zombies.
- To feel like a zombie: To feel extremely tired, lifeless, or devoid of energy.
- I only got three hours of sleep; I feel like a zombie today.
- A zombie state: A condition of being mentally or physically numb and unresponsive.
- After the shocking news, she was in a zombie state for hours.
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several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur
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someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way
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only an automaton wouldn't have noticed
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a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
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(voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body
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a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force
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