undead

[ uhn-ded ]
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adjective
  1. no longer alive but animated by a supernatural force, as a vampire or zombie.

nounUsually the undead .(used with a plural verb)
  1. undead beings collectively.

Origin of undead

1
First recorded in 1895–1900; un-1 + dead

Words Nearby undead

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How to use undead in a sentence

  • Give them outsized, bat-adorned tools and get them to play at construction activity in thumpy, undead pantomime.

  • They seemed to watch her with the awful patience of the undead.

    Shadows in the Moonlight | Robert E. Howard
  • If those undead things materialized while he lay among them!

    Isle of the Undead | Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
  • If I followed those undead things, they might capture me, but it seemed worse to stay there in that dreadful dark.

    Isle of the Undead | Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
  • Usually some of our captives live from full moon to full moon before they become like those of the galley—the undead.

    Isle of the Undead | Lloyd Arthur Eshbach

British Dictionary definitions for undead

undead

/ (ʌnˈdɛd) /


adjective
    • (of a fictional being, such as a vampire) technically dead but reanimated

    • (as collective noun; preceded by the): the undead

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