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cannibalise

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Verb

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Plain form
cannibalise

Third-person singular
cannibalises

Past tense
cannibalised

Past participle
cannibalised

Present participle
cannibalising

  1. (transitive) If an animal cannibalise, they eat another of their own species.
    The female black widow spider is known to cannibalise the male.
  2. (transitive) (machinery) If you cannibalise a machine, you remove parts of it to use it in other similar machines.
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