Meaning

(voodoo) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own, typically being slow, obedient, and harmless unless directed to be harmful..

Definitions by Sense

1. (voodoo) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own, typically being slow, obedient, and harmless unless directed to be harmful.
2. (horror) A dead person, reanimated through some fictional agency as a fungus, virus, or the like, that has an insatiable desire to eat living humans, typically depicted as aggressive, fast moving, and infectious.
3. (figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person.
4. (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
5. (figurative) Someone or something that should be dead but is not.
6. An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
7. (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.
8. (computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.

Example Sentences

Betsy Connell: I don't know about zombies, doctor. Just what is a zombie? / Dr. Maxwell: A ghost. A living dead. It's also a drink.

The rumour had started that he was the Zombie or living corpse of Baron Samedi himself, the dreaded Prince of Darkness, and he fostered the story so that now it was accepted through all the lower strata of the negro world.

The zombies were having fun The party had just begun The guests included Wolf-Man, Dracula, and his son.

Ashley: Dad passed on a few years back. He's probably still watching, though. Shepard: He's not a zombie, is he?

The zombies first show up 20 minutes in, after Melanie volunteers herself as the next child to mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night. That’s when we learn that Melanie and her classmates are all “hungries,” or people infected with a toxic fungus that turns them into mindless flesh-eating animals.

After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie.

I would advise anyone who does not share its politics — surely the great majority of gay men and lesbians — to shun NOLAG for the anachronistic zombie it is.

1986, Maurice J. Bach, The Design of the Unix Operating System, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, See "Process States and Transitions," p. 147. 9. The process executed the exit system call and is in the zombie state. The process no longer exists, but it leaves a record containing an exit code and some timing statistics for its parent process to collect. The zombie state is the final state of a process.

Word Forms

• zombies
• zombi
• zomby
• zumbi

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