zombify

English

Alternative forms

• zombiefy

Etymology

From zombie +‎ -fy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈzɒmbɪˌfaɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈzɑmbɪˌfaɪ/

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Verb

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

1. (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.

2. (transitive, computing) To take control of (a computer) in order to use it covertly and illicitly.

   These trojans can zombify your machine.

3. (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.

Hypernyms

• monsterize

Derived terms

• dezombify
• zombification

Translations

To turn into a zombie

Esperanto: zombiigi French: zombifier (fr) Italian: zombificare Latvian: zombēt (lv) Portuguese: zumbificar (Brazil), zombificar Romanian: zombifica Russian: зомби́ровать (ru) impf (zombírovatʹ) Swedish: zombifiera (sv) Turkish: zombileşmek