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un·dead

 (ŭn-dĕd′)
adj.
No longer living but supernaturally animated, as a zombie.
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undead

(ʌnˈdɛd)
adj
(European Myth & Legend)
a. (of a fictional being, such as a vampire) technically dead but reanimated
b. (as collective noun; preceded by the): the undead.
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un•dead

(ˌʌnˈdɛd)
adj.
1. no longer alive but animated by a supernatural force, as a vampire or zombie.
n.
2. (used with a pl. v.) undead beings collectively (usu. prec. by the).
[1895–1900]
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undead

n the undead pl → die Untoten pl
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In trance she dies, and in trance she is UnDead, too.
I was, in fact, beginning to shudder at the presence of this being, this UnDead, as Van Helsing called it, and to loathe it.
And he will sometimes think that she he loved was buried alive, and that will paint his dreams with horrors of what she must have suffered, and again, he will think that we may be right, and that his so beloved was, after all, an UnDead. No!
It pleases me that the UnDead, Miss Lucy, shall not leave tonight, that so on the morrow night she may be more eager.
.Take the papers that are with this, the diaries of Harker and the rest, and read them, and then find this great UnDead, and cut off his head and burn his heart or drive a stake through it, so that the world may rest from him.
I go no further than to say that she might be UnDead."
I gave her my nights and days, before death, after death, and if my death can do her good even now, when she is the dead UnDead, she shall have it freely." He said this with a very grave, sweet pride, and Arthur was much affected by it.
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