to cannibalize

Examples

• All

• The stronger ones cannibalized the weaker.

  Fiction book (1990)

• It's like he put all these killers in Sid's nursery... and let him watch them cannibalize each other.

  Virtuosity (1995)

• Such societies took trophy heads and cannibalized their enemies.

  Academic text (2003)

• Precocious larvae tend to be females that preferentially cannibalize their brothers.

  Academic text (1997)

• Some species may cannibalize closely related individuals, including siblings, because close kin are often the only conspecifics available to a malnourished organism.

  Academic text (1997)

• Honeybees (Apis mellifera) also avoid cannibalizing close kin.

  Academic text (1997)

• Males and females of such species show a temporal shift in infanticidal tendencies such that they cannibalize pups only when their own young are unlikely to be present.

  Academic text (1997)

• Many ancient tribes were known to cannibalize their fallen enemies during times of war.

• Some species of fish will cannibalize smaller members of their own kind to survive.

• Historical accounts reveal instances where explorers feared they would be cannibalized by local tribes.

Synonyms

D

to devour

vsto cannibalize

53 3.9

To destroy or use up things quickly, for example when fire burns a building

is specifically eating members of the same species, often human flesh

How Violent

to cannibalize

• Offensive

3 9.3

to devour

13 2.9

to eat

∞ 1.0

to nibble

56 2.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology