0 present participle of cannibalize
1 to take parts from a machine or vehicle in order to make or repair another machine or vehicle:
Analysts said that the move amounted to a cannibalizing of the economy and that it might lead to even more shortages in the future.
That sounds good, but in the process, the society takes seed corn out of production and diverts it to food, thereby cannibalizing itself.
However, soon the food supplies ran out, and the army resorted to cannibalizing the weaker people in the community for food.
Females had lower success rates cannibalizing large males, which managed to escape where smaller males could not.
Our culture is essentially cannibalizing its young, destroying the very sources of the content they crave.
They do so by flying away or cannibalizing.
They survive by stealing from and cannibalizing travelers.
One day, the wild barbarians (said to be inveterate robbers and even cannibalizing their own sons occasionally) decided to rob the community.
