cannibalism
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- noun
- /ˈkænɪbəlˌɪzəm/
- Offensive
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canibalismo
- In extreme circumstances, such as famine, some survivors have resorted to cannibalism to stay alive.
- indiscriminate cannibalism
- cannibalism at funerals
- sacrifice and cannibalism
Just to give you some context, the famine that we're talking about led to cannibalism.
- Just to give you some context, the famine that we're talking about led to cannibalism.
- Anyway, it recently got found out like a year ago that stop that he was into like cannibalism sexually.
Examples
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Polynesians have practiced cannibalism for centuries.
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According to legend, during a brutally cold winter... a lost hunter's severe hunger drove him to cannibalism.
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Find out why with this video, or discover how common human cannibalism is with this video.
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A far more complex response to cannibalism emerged after the first contact in 1956.
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For the first time in the history of humanity, documentation of cannibalism was obtained.
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They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.
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Reports of cannibalism and sexual mutilations are still unconfirmed at this hour.
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The second, more common form of cannibalism took place in Wari funerals.
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The Wari stopped practicing both forms of cannibalism after they entered sustained contact with outsiders.
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Up to this point, the Wari story fits neatly into the standard academic narrative of cannibalism and colonialism.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
An animal or person eating another member of the same species
The act of eating the body of another person
To eat the body of another person as food
Eating members of the same group, often as a ritual
A practice of eating people from another group, often enemies
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word cannibalism comes from Spanish Caníbal, which comes from the name of the Caribbean people 'Carib' whom early explorers said ate human flesh. The ending -ism means 'practice', so cannibalism is the practice of eating members of your own species.