Definitions

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  • verb To make into a vampire

Etymologies

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vampire +‎ -ize

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Examples

  • Kirsten Dunst's curly-haired Claudia, the little girl the two men vampirize into their "family," and who comes to hate her eternal entrapment in an undergrown body, manages to assume an eerie agelessness.

    A Feast Of Rats, Blood And Wild Rice 2008

  • I suck and vampirize the zeitgeist and the ethnicity and the history and the social and moral and immoral and abby-normal-oral.

    Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006

  • They are Time Junkies who vampirize your minutes and days until you are nearly drained of Slack.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • It is an energy we possess—Slack—that they vampirize in order to lock their nonmateriality into our material world.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • They are Time Junkies who vampirize your minutes and days until you are nearly drained of Slack.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • They are Time Junkies who vampirize your minutes and days until you are nearly drained of Slack.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • It is an energy we possess—Slack—that they vampirize in order to lock their nonmateriality into our material world.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • It is an energy we possess—Slack—that they vampirize in order to lock their nonmateriality into our material world.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • These people are getting paid millions SUPPOSEDLY to understand finance and economics actually, they're mostly paid to rip people off and vampirize production of concrete good and services, but that's not important to my point.

    The Guardian World News Michael Cohen 2011

  • THE PITCH: Vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) pops the question to mopey teen Bella Swann (Kristen Stewart), who demands he vampirize her instead.

    Creative Loafing Atlanta Feed 2010

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