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单词 cannibalized
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cannibalizedadj.

Brit. /ˈkanᵻbəlʌɪzd/, /ˈkanᵻbl̩ʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˈkænəbəˌlaɪzd/
Forms: see cannibal n. and -ized suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cannibal n., -ized suffix; cannibalize v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: Originally < cannibal n. + -ized suffix. In later use also partly < cannibalize v. + -ed suffix1.
1.
a. Affected by cannibalism; characterized by cannibalism; turned into a cannibal. Obsolete.Earliest and chiefly in figurative context.
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1648 ‘Mercurio-Mastix Hibernicus’ Muzzle for Cerberus 15 Some Carnalists now justifie, the barbarous cruelties, and Canniballized inhumanities of the Irish wolves, lately devouring our English Protestants.
1798 C. M'Cormick Mem. Edmund Burke (ed. 2) 380 He rings all the old changes on Jacobinism, Atheism, Cannibalism, till his own fancy becomes, as it were, cannibalized, and presents him with no better image than that of a regicide.
1849 J. D. Bridge Character of War 8 He is no longer civilized or christian, but he is cannibalized, so far as to sport in blood, and riot amid the agonies of death.
1849 Biblical Repository Apr. 376 The scene is ‘The Mountain Camp’, when visited by the party of relief sent out from California to the famished, snow-bound, cannibalized survivors of that ill-fated party.
1892 D. J. Snider Dante's Inferno 449 Not demonized but cannibalized is now the sinner.
1901 Washington Post 24 Mar. 31/6 The islands, a God-forsaken, cannibalized, Aguinaldo-infested blot on the face of God's green earth.
b. Eaten by a member of one's own species.
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1887 Rochester (Indiana) Tribune 4 Feb. A naked human being..who procures his food by killing animals with a spear pointed with the polished thighbone of a cannibalized Christian missionary.
1968 Kenosha (Wisconsin) News 30 Sept. 21/2 Evidence of cannibalism has been found but..animal remains far outnumber the cannibalized human remains.
1992 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Res. 35 207/1 Total numbers of dead and cannibalised pups.
2006 R. M. Parker in R. D. Hood Developmental & Reprod. Toxicology (ed. 2) x. 470 The sex and viability status are recorded for each pup (including dead, cannibalized, and malformed pups).
2.
a. Of a thing: stripped of parts for use in another of a similar kind.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [adjective] > re-used > re-used as part of something else
cannibalized1942
1942 Georgetown (Texas) Megaphone 5 Dec. 3/3 They slowly began rebuilding his cannibalized plane.
1992 L. A. Graf Ice Trap xi. 218 McCoy and Kirk lent a hand wherever necessary, be it hauling pipe from cannibalized sections of the ship, securing fixtures, or passing tools.
2010 World Oil (Nexis) Nov. Many more rigs have been newly constructed..than put together from cannibalized units.
b. Of a part: taken from another of a similar kind; (of a thing) containing parts taken from another of a similar kind.
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1943 Stars & Stripes (London ed.) 19 Feb. 2/3 This machine, made from ‘cannibalized’ parts by T/3 Charles E. Reith..weighs only two pounds.
1945 Star Valley (Afton, Wyoming) Independent 12 July For the men of the Group, the cannibalized ship had been a help.
1964 ‘M. Underwood’ Crime of C. Wise ii. 24 Wise had subsequently made him one [radio] out of cannibalised parts.
1987 Performance Sept. 39/2 Burwell..hammered out a furious riff on a set of cannabalised drums.
2008 Observer 13 Jan. 14/5 It [sc. Guernésiais] is not a cannibalised version of French but a Norman language in its own right.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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