Definition of zombie Zombie

/zɑˈmbi/ - [zambee] - zom•bie

We found 19 definitions of zombie from 5 different sources.

What does zombie mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: zombies
zombie - several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur
		zombi
		highball a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass
zombie - someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed"
		automaton, zombi
		unusual person, anomaly (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
zombie - (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body
		zombi, zombi spirit, zombie spirit
		disembodied spirit, spirit a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character
zombie - a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force
		zombi, living dead
zombie - a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
		zombi, snake god

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Wiktionary

zombie (Noun)
A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.
zombie (Noun)
A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces such as magic, with no soul or will of his/her own.
zombie (Noun)
A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living.
zombie (Noun)
An apathetic person.
zombie (Noun)
A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
zombie (Noun)
An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement. EE Times, "Beware 'zombie' clauses," 2 Aug. , 2004.
zombie (Noun)
A process or task which has terminated but was not removed from the list of processes, typically because it has child processes that have not yet terminated.
zombie (Noun)
A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
zombie (Noun)
A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
zombie (Noun)
Nickname for a conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe. The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton Canada, 1988. See "National Resources Mobilization Act," p. 1433.
zombie (Noun)
A hypothetical person who lacks self awareness.

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zombie
A legendary figure of a corpse reanimated by a supernatural force or a spell, with no soul and no will of its own.

Wikipedia

A zombie or zombi is a dead person who has returned to life as a walking corpse (the living dead). Things that have been "re-animated" are called undead. The Zombie myth came from the Caribbean.

Zombies have become very popular in horror movies. They are dead creatures that have been brought back to life by science or some spell, and eat the flesh or brain of living people.

Voodoo Zombies.

A Voodoo sorcerer or a bokor can bring dead people back to life. The now zombie is under the control of the sorcerer because zombies have no free will. The idea of this is that a zombie is a trapped human soul, and if a sorcerer can catch it, he becomes more powerful.

Examples.

Wade Davis, a Canadian ethnobotanist (someone who studies what effect plants have on people), wrote about zombies in two books, The Serpent and the Rainbow (1985) and (1988). Davis went to Haiti in 1982 found out and wrote about how a living person can be turned into a zombie by two special powders being rubbed into a wound. The first powder brought a 'death-like' state because of a certain poison in it, called tetrodotoxin. Tetrodotoxin is the same deadly poison found in the Japanese pufferfish. At just the right amount, it can make a person almost die, but not quite. The second powder, puts the person in a zombie-like state where they seem to have no will of their own.

Many people still don't believe what Davis wrote about, but in Haiti, lots of people recognized the "zombie drugs". This could mean that, while the