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noun 
  1. (greekmyth): Supreme ruler of all Greek gods and husband to Hera.
     
zombie Tweet Definition of zombie Like Definition of zombie on Facebook
noun 
  1. A snake god in religions of West Africa and elsewhere
  2. (context, voodoo, superstition) A person who is undead; a corpse reanimated by a supernatural force or a spell, with no soul and no will of its own.
  3. A person who is apathetic.
  4. (figurative) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a .
  1. An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.<ref>http://www.eet.com/issue/fp/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=26100928 EE Times, "Beware 'zombie' clauses," 2 Aug., 2004</ref>
  2. (computing) A process or task which has terminated but was not removed from the list of processes, typically because it has child processes that have not yet terminated.
  3. (computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
  4. A drink of rum and fruit juices
     

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