vampirization

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vampirize +‎ -ation

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vampirization (countable and uncountable, plural vampirizations)

  1. The act of turning someone into a vampire.
  2. Vampiric behaviour; the predatory draining of blood or (figurative) energy etc.
    • 1996, Gary Hoppenstand, Ray Broadus Browne, The Gothic World of Anne Rice, page 98:
      Nowhere is Rice's revision of these gender politics more evident than in the scenes surrounding the vampirization of Claudia, the orphan child.

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