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parasitising

parasitising is the present participle and gerund of parasitise.

Meaning of parasitise

Verb

parasitise (third-person singular simple present parasitises, present participle parasitising, simple past and past participle parasitised)

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

Questions about parasitising

What is parasitising the present participle and gerund of?
Parasitising is the present participle and gerund of parasitise.

Words near parasitising in the dictionary

  1. parasitisation
  2. parasitisations
  3. parasitise
  4. parasitised
  5. parasitises
  6. parasitising
  7. parasitism
  8. parasitisms
  9. parasitistatic
  10. parasitization
  11. parasitizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parasitising (page history and authors); parasitise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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