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词汇 cannibalizing
释义 cannibalizing
present participle ofcannibalize
cannibalize
verb[ T ]
(UK usuallycannibalise)uk /ˈkæn.ɪ.bəl.aɪz/ us /ˈkæn.ə.bəl.aɪz/
to take parts from a machine or vehicle in order to make or repair another machine or vehicle: 拆用;拼修;拼配
He bought an old engine and cannibalized it for spare parts.他买了个旧发动机,将它拆开取零配件用。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Tearing and breaking into pieces
apart
asunder
bobble
bobbly
break into pieces
chip
crack
disintegration
dismantle
fall to piecesidiom
fragment
fragmentation
rip
shred
snag
snap
splinter
split
sunder
tear something apart

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Analysts said that the move amounted to a cannibalizing of the economy and that it might lead to even more shortages in the future.
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That sounds good, but in the process, the society takes seed corn out of production and diverts it to food, thereby cannibalizing itself.
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However, soon the food supplies ran out, and the army resorted to cannibalizing the weaker people in the community for food.
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Females had lower success rates cannibalizing large males, which managed to escape where smaller males could not.
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Our culture is essentially cannibalizing its young, destroying the very sources of the content they crave.
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They do so by flying away or cannibalizing.
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They survive by stealing from and cannibalizing travelers.
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One day, the wild barbarians (said to be inveterate robbers and even cannibalizing their own sons occasionally) decided to rob the community.
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The pairing has paid off for both stations, ratings and audience wise, without cannibalizing each other.
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This is to enable luxury brands to off-load last year's merchandise without undermining their brands or cannibalizing sales at their existing stores.
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Although the additional units increased market share in some markets, a number of franchisees complained that new units were cannibalizing sales from existing ones.
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This reproductive success was largely due to the increased energy uptake by cannibalizing males and investing that additional energy in the development of larger, higher-quality egg cases.
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The remaining pilots continued operations with the few planes that were left, cannibalizing aircraft wreckage to keep a few planes airborne in the early months of 1942.
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