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Definition of Cannibalising
1. cannibalise [v] - See also: cannibalise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cannibalising
Literary usage of Cannibalising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Empire Series (1899)
"... ministers, lawyers, and doctors, who would no more want to take off their
store clothing and go cannibalising and howling about the bush than you would. ..."
2. Noqu Talanoa: Stories from the South Seas by Herbert Tichborne, Sundowner (1896)
"... and the popular Pacific Island custom of cannibalising was never very extensively
developed amongst them. ..."
3. California by John Gottberg (1999)
"Of the 82 travelers, 32 survived until spring by cannibalising their dead.
Despite such gruesome stories, the westward flow of pioneers continued. ..."
4. Report of the Hundred and Twentieth Round Table on Transport Economics Held by Economic Research Centre (2002)
"Similarly, in most countries rolling stock was maintained only by cannibalising
other wagons or locomotives that the drop in traffic had made surplus. ..."
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