D&D 5E Which spells restore a zombie?

Resurection spell don't works with UNDEAD.
It doesn't work while the creature is still actively undead. If you kill the undead creature, then you can cast resurrection on the corpse to bring it back to life. (Or raise dead, if the creature's death, undeath, and second death have all occurred within the span of ten days.)

As Jeremy Crawford has just tweeted, if you cast revivify on a zombie, it'll come back to unlife as a zombie again.
 

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Thinking about this question more, I guess it depends on when you consider something "dead."

If a fighter was killed and turned into a zombie and two weeks go by and then you kill the zombie, can you cast Raise Dead on the corpse? Well, it depends on whether or not you consider the fighter "dead" from the time it was killed originally, or from the moment you kill the zombie. If it's not truly dead until the zombie is dead, then you're good. If not, then you can't raise him with that spell because it's been more than 10 days.

I'm coming at this from the perspective that the "curse" of "zombie" is effectively removed when the creature is killed again.
 

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