zombify
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zombify (third-person singular simple present zombifies, present participle zombifying, simple past and past participle zombified)
- (transitive, fiction) To turn into a zombie (a member of the living dead or undead).
- 1994, A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Hispanic and Francophone Regions, Arnold, et al:
- She managed to flee the sorcerer who had attempted to zombify her and enjoyed relative prosperity in Jamaica.
- (transitive, computing) To take control of (a computer) in order to use it covertly and illicitly.
- These trojans can zombify your machine.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To deprive of authenticity or vitality; to render someone brainless or unthinking.
- 2022, “Zombified”, in Neon Zombie, performed by Falling in Reverse:
- Zombified by the lies they said, we’ve become the walking dead.
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To turn into a zombie
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