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What does cannibalised mean?

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  1. simple past tense and past participle of cannibalise
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More than half the navy was not battle-ready because of cash shortages and many vessels were being cannibalised for spare parts, he said.
Pumps at the others have been cannibalised for parts, which causes further overgrazing at those wells in working order.
Proper records have also been maintained of these cannibalised spare parts in Hyderabad.
Meanwhile, tanks and other machinery had to be cannibalised to provide spare parts for front-line equipment.
This was originally a cheap Tandy keyboard which I cannibalised.
The resulting embryos were allowed to develop in laboratory dishes for several days before the scientists cannibalised them to extract embryonic stem cells.

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