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Cannibalize   /kˈænəbəlˌaɪz/   Listen
verb
cannibalize  v. i. & v. t.  Same as cannibalise.



cannibalize, cannibalise  v. t.  To use parts of (something, such as a machine), to repair something else.
Synonyms: use parts of.



cannibalize, cannibalise  v. i.  To eat human flesh.
Synonyms: practice cannibalism.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cannibalize" Quotes from Famous Books



... the enemy is used to them now. I am still working on the subspace beacon. The radio and most of the control linkages have gone into it. It looks like an electronicist's nightmare, but if the survival manual is right, it will work. It has to work! I dread the time when I shall have to cannibalize the recorder. Can't help thinking that Shakespeare was right when he wrote that bit about music soothing the savage breast. It may not soothe the enemy, for it isn't savage, but it certainly soothes me, even though there's something repetitive about it after a half a hundred ...
— The Issahar Artifacts • Jesse Franklin Bone

... Arabs undertook to cannibalize him, I think he must have given it to them right and left," continued Saunders, wiping an eye, for between him and the captain there had existed some such affection as the prisoner comes to feel for the handcuffs with which he amuses his ennui, ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper



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