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alt. To live on or in a host organism as a parasite. vb. To live on or in a host organism as a parasite.
Usage examples of "parasitize".
Cody saw the Spanish Inquisition pronouncing judgment on generations of poor Andean Indies as well as their own kind, serpentine tendrils and teeth and ichorous suckers fluttering from the foreheads of parasitized judges and prosecutors.
Not every one of these trees and plants had been parasitized by the unknown, ominous creatures Cody could now see clearly, but enough of them were to cause him to jerk sharply on the wheel and send the car screeching away from the greenbelt bordering the school and over into the fast lane.
And he was sitting outdoors at the Baja Naja, toying with the remains of a perfectly agreeable if unspectacular lunch while discussing a kind of previously unsuspected diabolic state of being with an extensively parasitized visitor from another continent.
Cody was at once fascinated and hor-rifled by the parasitized man sitting across the table from him.
Since they are not in danger of being parasitized by members of their own species, this is effective.
Later, when the friend is parasitized himself, the good deed can be paid back.
No ordinary human being, no matter how highly gifted, could be the equal of one who had had the advantage of becoming host-organism to a parasitizing Ceetal.
Perhaps cuckoos have only in recent centuries started parasitizing their present hosts, and will in a few centuries be forced to give them up and victimize other species.
One species can parasitize a hundred kinds of caterpillars, including budworms and cabbage white butterfly larvae.
And he was sitting outdoors at the Baja Naja, toying with the remains of a perfectly agreeable if unspectacular lunch while discussing a kind of previously unsuspected diabolic state of being with an extensively parasitized visitor from another continent.
Most blowflies, bluebottle flies and flesh flies buzz around the world looking for garbage - although some go in for rather more exotic fare, like parasitizing snails or earthworms!
It comes in an amalgam of cloudy scents: the clinging stink of living flesh parasitized by aerobic bacteria.
He mined their design from the living dust of Deception Well's nebula, storing the pattern in his fixed memory, a data vault contained within the filamentous strands of the Chenzeme neural organ that parasitizes his brain.
We used a tiny creature native to the Jospro sector, which parasitizes the neocortex of the brain.
Rappaport replied that the entire Animal Kingdom parasitized the Plant Kingdom.