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		cannibalizecan‧ni‧bal‧ize (also cannibalise British English) /ˈkænəbəlaɪz/ verb [transitive]    VERB TABLEcannibalize |
 | Present | I, you, we, they | cannibalize |   | he, she, it | cannibalizes |  | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | cannibalized |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have cannibalized |   | he, she, it | has cannibalized |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had cannibalized |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will cannibalize |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have cannibalized |  
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 | Present | I | am cannibalizing |   | he, she, it | is cannibalizing |   | you, we, they | are cannibalizing |  | Past | I, he, she, it | was cannibalizing |   | you, we, they | were cannibalizing |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been cannibalizing |   | he, she, it | has been cannibalizing |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been cannibalizing |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be cannibalizing |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been cannibalizing |  
    - It was suggested that female spiders, by cannibalizing courting males, have actively selected for small male size.
 - Most of the craft had been cannibalized and ripped apart.
 - The competition between superstores and malls has gotten so bad that some companies are cannibalizing themselves.
 - We cannibalized the parts off of the other five generators.
 
   1to take parts of one machine to use in another, for example to repair it:   The truck was cannibalized for parts.2technical if one of a company’s products cannibalizes another, it takes sales away from it  |