zombied
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
In a zombie state (said either of a zombie process or of a computer covertly controlled by malware).
Example Sentences
- "A process that is unable to continue executing and cannot exit the system is zombied. A zombied process does not use any system resources but it still maintains an entry in the process table."
- "In this manner, the victim may be able to discover the one or many zombied systems that are causing the DoS attack but probably won't be able to track down the actual attacker."
Etymology
From zombie + -ed.