Verb:

cannibalize,

cannibalised's Usage Examples:

After its retirement from service in 1966, it was cannibalised for parts which were needed to repair Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

seal the plot to kill the party, and for the body of Thomas Baker to be cannibalised and distributed in the old traditional village of Nabialevu (Nadrau).

The surviving crewmen cannibalised O'Brien for three days until the 20th, when an adult crewman, Michael.

although differing accounts give different totals of how many people he cannibalised (most say his murder count is only around 99).

Only the first was sold, the other two being cannibalised for parts and then scrapped in 1924.

withdrawn in 1913, with several more following during the First World War, cannibalised to keep Class Bs running.

missionary who, together with his colleague Henry Lyman, was murdered and cannibalised in Sumatra.

of a 45-member clan in Scotland in the 16th century that murdered and cannibalised over 1,000 people in the span of 25 years.

astronomers speculated that this clump was part of a small galaxy being "cannibalised" by the Milky Way.

Synonyms:

have; cannibalize; take; ingest; take in; consume;

Antonyms:

nonfunctional; inactivity; conserve; integrate; abstain;