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Cannibalize   /kˈænəbəlˌaɪz/   Listen
Cannibalize

verb
1.
Eat human flesh.  Synonym: cannibalise.
2.
Use parts of something to repair something else.  Synonym: cannibalise.






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"Cannibalize" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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, "some of ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... chart carefully," he said. "The oxygen supply of a marsuit won't take us either back to the Canfell Farm or to Ophir, even with extra tanks. We're just going to have to cannibalize two of these machines ...
— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay



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