noun Download 🔗Share A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere. Examples : "Some West African villages revere the zombies, believing they hold special powers. " mythology religion culture supernatural Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (voodoo, superstition) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own. Examples : "The movie was about zombies who roamed the streets, searching for brains to eat, controlled by a powerful voodoo curse. " supernatural mythology religion curse inhuman being soul person entertainment literature culture Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living. Examples : "During the Halloween haunted house, actors dressed as zombies chased after the visitors, groaning and trying to grab them. " supernatural mythology body being inhuman entertainment media story culture Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An apathetic person. Examples : "After the long meeting, the employees walked back to their desks like zombies, completely drained and unmotivated. " person mind character attitude inhuman Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion. Examples : "After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie." mind human body condition Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement. Examples : "The project team was full of zombies who couldn't discuss their work outside the office due to strict NDAs. " business job work Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "Because the main program crashed, several "zombies" remained, cluttering the computer's process list even though they weren't actually doing anything. " computing process technology system Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge. Examples : "Cybercriminals used a virus to turn thousands of personal computers into zombies, which they then used to send spam emails. " computing internet virus technology electronics machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A cocktail of rum and fruit juices. Examples : "At the tiki bar, Maria ordered two zombies, hoping their tropical flavors would help her forget her stressful day. " drink food Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe. Examples : "During World War II, some Canadian soldiers, derisively called "zombies" by those who volunteered for overseas duty, were stationed in Canada to protect the homeland. " military history nation Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Marijuana, or similar drugs. Examples : "My friend's latest obsession is zombies. " substance medicine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience. Examples : "Philosophers use thought experiments involving zombies to discuss the nature of consciousness, imagining beings who look and act like us but don't feel or experience anything internally. " being mind philosophy human inhuman supernatural soul science body biology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading