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undead
/ʌnˈdɛd/
adj 3noun 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
unsuspecting
VERB + UNDEAD
attacked, service, spoke
UNDEAD + NOUN
army, human, neighbor, soldiers
PREP.
in, on
Definitions
adj
1
Not dead; alive.
2
Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.
3
Being animate, though non-living.
When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an undead neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on movie teenagers' tendency to indulge their inner lives, ignorant of the world around them.
noun
1
A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate.
In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some unsuspecting teenagers.
"You will do me a service," the undead said to him.
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When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an undead neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on m
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In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some unsuspecting teenagers.
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"You will do me a service," the undead said to him.
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Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads, an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.
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The undead feed on human flesh.
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Flavio was attacked by undead soldiers.
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