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Definitions: Cannibalize |
CannibalizeVerb1. Eat human flesh. 2. Use parts of something to repair something else. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Transportation | To remove serviceable parts from one aircraft or item of equipment in order to install them on another aircraft or item of equipment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CannibalizeSynonym: cannibalise (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: cannibalise (transportation). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Substitution | Verb: substitute, put in the place of, change for; make way for, give place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute, redeem, compound for. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Cannibalize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Cannibalize" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cannibalize | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cannibalize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 拆取部件 (cannibalise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vykuchat (clean, disembowel, eviscerate, Gib), vybrakovat (clean out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kannibalisere (cannibalise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kannibaliseren (cannibalise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ادمخواری کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | riistää (cannibalise, deprive bereave, dispossess, exploit, rob, take, tear, wrench). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cannibaliser (cannibalise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ausschlachten (cannibalise, dress, get everything out of, gut, to cannibalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κανιβαλίζω (cannibalise), καννιβαλίζω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kiszerel (to disassemble), kibelez (bowel, disembowel, drawn, drew, embowel, eviscerate, Gill, gut, to cannibalize, to disembowel, to draw, to eviscerate, to gut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mempreteli onderdil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cannibalizzare (cannibalise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 공식하십시" (cannibalise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | annibalizecay canibalizar (cannibalise). (various references) demonta maşini. (various references) skidati delove. (various references) canibalizar (cannibalise). (various references) parça almak (resect), kullanılmış parça takmak. (various references) розтягати машину частинами. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "cannibalize": cannibalized, cannibalizes. (additional references) | |
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"Cannibalize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: canabalize, cannibalisme, cannibolize. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cannibalize" (pronounced ka"nubulī'z) |
| 5 | -b u l ī' z | demobilize, destabilize, globalize, metabolize, mobilize, stabilize, symbolize, verbalize. |
| 4 | -u l ī' z | actualize, alkalies, analyze, annualize, brutalize, capitalize, caramelize, catalyze, centralize, civilize, collateralize, commercialize, compartmentalize, criminalize, crystallize, decentralize, deinstitutionalize, demoralize, denationalize, departmentalize, depersonalize, editorialize, equalize, evangelize, federalize, fertilize, fictionalize, finalize, formalize, fossilize, generalize, hospitalize, hydrolyze, idolize, industrialize, internalize, internationalize, legalize, liberalize, localize, marginalize, materialize, memorialize, mineralize, monopolize, moralize, nationalize, naturalize, neutralize, normalize, paralyze, penalize, personalize, professionalize, radicalize, rationalize, recapitalize, regionalize, renationalize, revitalize, scandalize, serialize, socialize, specialize, sterilize, tantalize, tranquilize, trivialize, underutilize, utilize, vandalize, visualize. |
| 3 | -l ī' z | butterflies, creolize, fireflies, gadflies, idealize, multiplies, realize, stylize. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-i-l-n-n-z" | |
-3 letters: banalize, biennial, binnacle, canalize, cannibal. | |
-4 letters: abelian, alanine, albinic, albizia, aniline, balance, biennia, encinal, incline, laicize. | |
-5 letters: abelia, ablaze, aecial, alanin, anilin, anlace, anneal, bailie, banian, banzai, benzal, benzin, canine, cannel, cannie, encina, inlace, niacin, zenana, zinnia. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-i-l-n-n-z" | |
+1 letter: cannibalized, cannibalizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6E 6E 69 62 61 6C 69 7A 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -. -. .. -... .- .-.. .. --.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101110 01101110 01101001 01100010 01100001 01101100 01101001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a n n i b a l i z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006E 006E 0069 0062 0061 006C 0069 007A 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767808075686778759271 |
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