zombify

[ zom-buh-fahy ]

verb (used with object)

, zom·bi·fied, zom·bi·fy·ing.

1. to turn (someone) into a zombie.

Other Words From

• zombi·fi·cation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of zombify¹

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

Even the most zombified Republican politician will eventually come to realize the party needs to move on.

From Los Angeles Times

They can continue to sleep-walk, zombified, even deeper into the Age of Trump and his first dictatorship or they can wake up and resist.

From Salon

With the right music Dad could escape his zombified abyss.

From Literature

The Ayn Rand winner-take-all ethos and the thoroughly disproved trickle-down theory, which holds that helping those who need no help will somehow lift everyone up, continue to be trotted out in debased, zombified form.

From Salon

And the zombified drug users passed out on sidewalks in practically every city and town.

From Seattle Times