zombie

noun
zom*bie \ ˈzäm-bē \
1928{ds||1|a|}
  • a will-less and speechless human (as in voodoo belief and in fictional stories) held to have died and been supernaturally reanimated
  • the supernatural power that according to voodoo belief may enter into and reanimate a dead body
  • a person held to resemble the so-called walking dead; especially : automaton
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