Definition of "zombify"

zombify

verb
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).
  Quotations
  She managed to flee the sorcerer who had attempted to zombify her and enjoyed relative prosperity in Jamaica.
  1994, A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Hispanic and Francophone Regions, Arnold, et al
2. (transitive, computing) To take control of (a computer) in order to use it covertly and illicitly.
3. (transitive, idiomatic) To deprive of authenticity or vitality; to render someone brainless or unthinking.
  Quotations
  Zombified by the lies they said, we’ve become the walking dead.
  2022, “Zombified”, in Neon Zombie, performed by Falling in Reverse