zombify

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zombify (third-person singular simple present zombifies, present participle zombifying, simple past and past participle zombified)

  1. (transitive, fictional) To turn into a zombie (a member of the living dead or undead).
    • 1994, Arnold et al., A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Hispanic and Francophone Regions:
      She managed to flee the sorcerer who had attempted to zombify her and enjoyed relative prosperity in Jamaica.
  2. (transitive, computing, of a personal computer) To use as a zombie in order to disseminate spam.
    These trojans can zombify your machine.

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