parasitize

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To live on or in a host organism as a parasite.
2. verb To behave as a parasite more generally.

Similar words

hyperparasitise superparasitize hyperparasitize ectoparasitize ectoparasitise bioinvade symbiose cleptoparasitize bioaccumulate biologize

Often followed by

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Word family

parasitization parasitizations parasitized parasitizes parasitizing