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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 |