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What is the verb for parasite?

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parasitise
  1. To live on or in a host organism as a parasite.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Female searches diligently on walls and banks for mason wasp nests which she enters, if owner is absent, to parasitise the larvae.”
      “The females just clone themselves, and the males replace all the female genetic material and essentially parasitise the females as reproductive incubators of their own genes.”
      “However, some lichens, notably those of the genus Diploschistes are known to parasitise other lichens.”
parasitize
  1. To live on or in a host organism as a parasite.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In one strepsipteran family, males and females actually parasitize different kinds of insects.”
      “Like all gordian worms the larvae of this family parasitize on a number of aquatic and terrestrial insects.”
      “Female wasps parasitize fruit flies by inserting their eggs into fruit fly eggs.”
parasitizes
parasitises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of parasitise
parasitized
parasitised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of parasitise
parasitizing
  1. present participle of parasitize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Al concentrations in leaves of mistletoes parasitizing plants from the cerrado belt of Brazil depend on the nature of the host species.”
      “Research has identified possible biological control agents parasitizing larvae, such as: Xanthocryptus novozealandicus and Campoplex sp.”
      “Ophiocordycipitaceae is a highly diverse fungal family parasitizing a wide range of arthropods and hypogeous fungi.”
parasitising
  1. present participle of parasitise
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