Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To live on or in (a host) as a parasite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To live on or in a host organism as a parasite.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In zoöl, to infest or make a host of (another animal), as a parasite.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Agree wholeheartedly wih your solution, but the word parasitize?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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For that matter, if it were possible for me to attach myself, a grown woman, to you and parasitize off your body, you would have the right to detach myself from yourself even if it resulted in my death because you have the right to control your body.
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My entire point was related to the futility of funding organizations that parasitize the needy to batten themselves on the guilt of the fortunate.
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Transportation corridors, especially roads and their associated vehicle traffic, may fracture habitats and limit free movement of species within ecosystems, however, they also provide corridors for the movement of invasive plant and animal species, with often detrimental consequences for native species with which they may compete, prey upon, parasitize, or infect.
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There are also attempts to parasitize or take-over other pre-existing movements and emerging movements.
Chip Berlet: Roots of Right Wing Populist Rage -- Realignment
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Relatives of jellyfish began to parasitize fish, and stripped themselves down into little sporelike shapes, which today plague the trout of American rivers with whirling disease.
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A. R. Kraaijeveld of the Imperial College in England performed one such experiment with fruit flies and the wasps that parasitize them.
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If one says that their characteristics can be adjusted for age and other factors decreasing the chance for them to parasitize the net taxpayer in the welfare society, that's a lot like saying the more restrictionism of immigration the better.
Immigration on Trial, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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This is a basic fact of the alternative welfare society; that low-income workers aggressively parasitize the net taxpayer.
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It would be just like an Ichneumon wasp to parasitize something.
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