Similar words: cannibalism, cannibalistic, cannibalize, cannibalization, cannibal, hannibal, tribalism, globalise. Meaning: v. 1. eat human flesh 2. use parts of something to repair something else.
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(1) A website need not cannibalise existing sales.
(2) Sedimentation goes on all the time, for ever moving from place to place, for ever cannibalising itself.
(3) The firm reckons that discounters will eventually end up cannibalising each other's market share rather than damaging the bigger chains.
(4) Furthermore, legal downloading could cannibalise industry profits as fans are given the ability to pick and choose favourite tracks rather than having to buy whole albums.
(5) Brin, however, says the plan would make millions of out-of-print books available online and thus would not cannibalise existing sales, as those books were not readily available to buyers.
(6) Many people, even some within the company, thought this would cannibalise Amazon's own sales.
(7) New pictures show that polar bears are beginning to cannibalise each other as global warming destroys its hunting grounds.
(8) Network operators have been notoriously reluctant to allow Skype services on their mobile handsets, fearing it will cannibalise revenue earned from traditional voice calls.
(9) From Google’s point of view, Google will be asking themselves whether they make more money from search or whether they will cannibalise their revenues if they start offering paid hotel search.
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