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morto-vivo — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • undead adjective Neither fully alive nor truly dead — animated despite being a corpse, as in folklore and fiction.
  • zombie noun In folklore and fiction, a reanimated corpse controlled by magic or driven by a mindless urge to attack the living.

Senses

morto-vivo is used for these senses in English:

  • living dead (fiction, usually with the) The undead; zombies, vampires, etc.
  • undead (horror fiction) Being animate, though non-living.
  • undead (horror and fantasy fiction) A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate.
  • zombie (computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.

undead — full definition

  1. adjective Neither fully alive nor truly dead — animated despite being a corpse, as in folklore and fiction.
  2. noun A being that is undead, such as a vampire or zombie.

zombie — full definition

  1. noun In folklore and fiction, a reanimated corpse controlled by magic or driven by a mindless urge to attack the living.
  2. noun A person who seems dazed, slow, or lifeless, especially from exhaustion.
  3. noun A computer secretly infected with malware and remotely controlled by an attacker, usually as part of a larger network.

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