parasite
noun
an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
Example Sentences
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Boarding school has parasitically replaced Vanessa’s incipient interior life with its own simulacrum of one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2020
What “Cat Person” and “The Good Guy” share is a merciless realism, particularly about the fantasies that attach themselves parasitically to our relationships, making us false to ourselves and others.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2019
What ABC and the producers did, of course, was rid themselves of an annoyance, a troublesome show that had become unmanageable, almost parasitically taken over by a Twitter feed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2018
I live parasitically off the labour of others and benefit from the power structure that protects me.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2013
They would, I think, show that, upon the large and general motion of the glacier, smaller motions are superposed, as minor oscillations are known to cover parasitically the large ones of a vibrating string.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
