Meaning

2 senses
  1. To live on or in a host organism as a parasite.

    parasitieren, schmarotzen

    паразити́роватьparazitírovatʹ

    паразитува́тиparazytuváty

  2. To behave as a parasite more generally.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Politicians are hypocrite dilettante good-for-nothings who cheekily parasitize.

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
live off a host:
Русский
By meaning 1
live off a host:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
live off a host:

Forms

parasitizes, parasitizing, parasitized, parasitized
Base formparasitize · to parasitize
3rd person singularparasitizes
Present participleparasitizing
Past simpleparasitized
Past participleparasitized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyparasitize
he, she, itparasitizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsparasitized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave parasitized
he, she, ithas parasitized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill parasitize

Synonyms

4 synonyms

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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