Verb: cannibalise 'ka-ni-bu,lIz
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: cannibalize)
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: cannibalize)
- Eat human flesh
"Some tribes were known to cannibalise their enemies";
- cannibalize
- Use parts of something to repair something else
"They cannibalised old computers for spare parts";
- cannibalize
- Take or draw from an existing market, product, or industry, especially in a way that damages or reduces the original or established entity
"Chinese EV imports could cannibalise European car sales";
- cannibalize
Derived forms: cannibalised, cannibalises, cannibalising
Type of: apply, consume, employ, have, ingest, take, take in, use, utilise [Brit], utilize
Encyclopedia: Cannibalise