cannibalizing
present participle ofcannibalize
cannibalize
verb[T]
(UKusuallycannibalise)uk/ˈkæn.ɪ.bəl.aɪz/us/ˈkæn.ə.bəl.aɪz/to takepartsfrom amachineorvehicleinorderto make orrepairanothermachineorvehicle:
Heboughtanoldengineand cannibalized it forspareparts.
Tearing and breaking into pieces
- apart
- asunder
- bobble
- bobbly
- break(something)off
- chip
- crack
- fall apart
- fall to piecesidiom
- fragment
- fragmentation
- fragmented
- frayed
- rip
- splinter
- split
- sunder
- tearsomethingapart
- tearsomethingup
- teardown
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Analysts said that the move amounted to acannibalizingof the economy and that it might lead to even more shortages in the future.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That sounds good, but in the process, the society takes seed corn out of production and diverts it to food, therebycannibalizingitself.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, soon the food supplies ran out, and the army resorted tocannibalizingthe weaker people in the community for food.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Females had lower success ratescannibalizinglarge males, which managed to escape where smaller males could not.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One day, the wild barbarians (said to be inveterate robbers and evencannibalizingtheir own sons occasionally) decided to rob the community.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The pairing has paid off for both stations, ratings and audience wise, withoutcannibalizingeach other.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is to enable luxury brands to off-load last year's merchandise without undermining their brands orcannibalizingsales at their existing stores.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Although the additional units increased market share in some markets, a number of franchisees complained that new units werecannibalizingsales from existing ones.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This reproductive success was largely due to the increased energy uptake bycannibalizingmales and investing that additional energy in the development of larger, higher-quality egg cases.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The remaining pilots continued operations with the few planes that were left,cannibalizingaircraft wreckage to keep a few planes airborne in the early months of 1942.
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