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Meaning of "cannibalise" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CANNIBALISE

cannibalise  [ˈkænɪbəˌlaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CANNIBALISE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cannibalise is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb cannibalise in English.

WHAT DOES CANNIBALISE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cannibal (disambiguation)

A cannibal is an organism which eats others of its own species. Cannibal and similar terms may also refer to: ▪ Cannibalism, of a non-human animal, eating one's own species ▪ Cannibalism in pre-Columbian America ▪ Endocannibalism, eating dead members of one's own culture, tribe or social group ▪ Camouflage canopy that 'ate up' field guns and limbers in Operation Bertram...

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CANNIBALISE

PRESENT

Present
I cannibalise
you cannibalise
he/she/it cannibalises
we cannibalise
you cannibalise
they cannibalise
Present continuous
I am cannibalising
you are cannibalising
he/she/it is cannibalising
we are cannibalising
you are cannibalising
they are cannibalising
Present perfect
I have cannibalised
you have cannibalised
he/she/it has cannibalised
we have cannibalised
you have cannibalised
they have cannibalised
Present perfect continuous
I have been cannibalising
you have been cannibalising
he/she/it has been cannibalising
we have been cannibalising
you have been cannibalising
they have been cannibalising
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I cannibalised
you cannibalised
he/she/it cannibalised
we cannibalised
you cannibalised
they cannibalised
Past continuous
I was cannibalising
you were cannibalising
he/she/it was cannibalising
we were cannibalising
you were cannibalising
they were cannibalising
Past perfect
I had cannibalised
you had cannibalised
he/she/it had cannibalised
we had cannibalised
you had cannibalised
they had cannibalised
Past perfect continuous
I had been cannibalising
you had been cannibalising
he/she/it had been cannibalising
we had been cannibalising
you had been cannibalising
they had been cannibalising
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will cannibalise
you will cannibalise
he/she/it will cannibalise
we will cannibalise
you will cannibalise
they will cannibalise
Future continuous
I will be cannibalising
you will be cannibalising
he/she/it will be cannibalising
we will be cannibalising
you will be cannibalising
they will be cannibalising
Future perfect
I will have cannibalised
you will have cannibalised
he/she/it will have cannibalised
we will have cannibalised
you will have cannibalised
they will have cannibalised
Future perfect continuous
I will have been cannibalising
you will have been cannibalising
he/she/it will have been cannibalising
we will have been cannibalising
you will have been cannibalising
they will have been cannibalising
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would cannibalise
you would cannibalise
he/she/it would cannibalise
we would cannibalise
you would cannibalise
they would cannibalise
Conditional continuous
I would be cannibalising
you would be cannibalising
he/she/it would be cannibalising
we would be cannibalising
you would be cannibalising
they would be cannibalising
Conditional perfect
I would have cannibalise
you would have cannibalise
he/she/it would have cannibalise
we would have cannibalise
you would have cannibalise
they would have cannibalise
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been cannibalising
you would have been cannibalising
he/she/it would have been cannibalising
we would have been cannibalising
you would have been cannibalising
they would have been cannibalising
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you cannibalise
we let´s cannibalise
you cannibalise
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to cannibalise
Past participle
cannibalised
Present Participle
cannibalising
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CANNIBALISE


cannibalize
ˈkænɪbəˌlaɪz
carbolise
ˈkɑːbəˌlaɪz
catabolize
kəˈtæbəˌlaɪz
detribalise
diːˈtraɪbəˌlaɪz
detribalize
diːˈtraɪbəˌlaɪz
diabolise
daɪˈæbəˌlaɪz
diabolize
daɪˈæbəˌlaɪz
embolise
ˈɛmbəˌlaɪz
embolize
ˈɛmbəˌlaɪz
globalize
ˈɡləʊbəˌlaɪz
hyperbolise
haɪˈpɜːbəˌlaɪz
hyperbolize
haɪˈpɜːbəˌlaɪz
marbleize
ˈmɑːbəˌlaɪz
metabolise
mɪˈtæbəˌlaɪz
metabolize
mɪˈtæbəˌlaɪz
metagrobolize
ˌmɛtəˈɡrɒbəˌlaɪz
parabolise
pəˈræbəˌlaɪz
parabolize
pəˈræbəˌlaɪz
symbolize
ˈsɪmbəˌlaɪz
verbalize
ˈvɜːbəˌlaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CANNIBALISE

canner
canneries
cannery
Cannes
cannibal
cannibalisation
cannibalism
cannibalistic
cannibalistically
cannibalization
cannibalize
cannibally
cannier
canniest
cannikin
cannily
canniness
canning
Canning Basin
canning factory

WORDS THAT END LIKE CANNIBALISE

actualise
banalise
centralise
contextualise
equalise
finalise
focalise
generalise
legalise
materialise
Molise
mutualise
nationalise
normalise
penalise
radicalise
realise
scandalise
socialise
totalise
valise

Synonyms and antonyms of cannibalise in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cannibalise» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CANNIBALISE

Find out the translation of cannibalise to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cannibalise from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cannibalise» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

canibalizar
570 millions of speakers

English

cannibalise
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cannibalize
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فكك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пожирать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

canibalizar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cannibalize
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cannibaliser
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cannibalize
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ausschlachten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

共食いする
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

고기를 먹다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cannibalize
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chiếm lĩnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தின்றுவிடக்கூடிய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

केनीबॅलीझ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

parça almak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cannibalizzare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cannibalize
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пожирати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

canibaliza
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υιοθετήσεις
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kannibaliseer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cannibalize
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kannibaliserer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cannibalise

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CANNIBALISE»

The term «cannibalise» is normally little used and occupies the 135.366 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CANNIBALISE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cannibalise» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cannibalise» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cannibalise

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CANNIBALISE»

Discover the use of cannibalise in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cannibalise and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Darwinian Fitness in the Global Marketplace: Analysing the ...
Under the simultaneous strategy, the lower quality would cannibalise demand for the higher quality. To reduce cannibalisation, the seller could lower the quality of the low-end model and reduce the price of the high-end. Alternatively, he could ...
Rajagopal, 2012
2
Applied Ethics and Human Rights: Conceptual Analysis and ...
What if there is something other than the duel of the Hegelian double, and what if Darwinian 'natural selection' is not the obvious endpoint, the obvious resolution of the duel? What if the self does not cannibalise the Other 4 does not manage ...
Shashi Motilal, 2011
3
Mobile Media
From the internet we learn that if a mass media is an inherent threat media, threatening to cannibalise all legacy media, it also will rapidly alter each of the legacy media. Bearing in mind that mobile is also an inherent threat media, able to ...
Alan Moore
4
Mobile as the 7th Mass Media
It is possible that a new media like mobile can cannibalise totally a previous media format, but not all of a media channel. What is a more important lesson from recordings is that totally new content formats can be invented with any new mass ...
Alan Moore
5
Television Versus the Internet: Will TV Prosper or Perish as ...
... as a rival to offline media, it can prove to be an ally when. Does. one. medium. cannibalise. another? reported use of the Internet correlate with reduced viewing of. 14 Television versus the Internet Does one medium cannibalise another?
Barrie Gunter, 2010
6
Creative Disruption ePub eBook: What you need to do to shake ...
When I've spoken to entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, they are all too aware that an incumbent's inability or unwillingness to cannibalise themselves can give new entrants a significant advantage. Saul Klein, now a partner with Index ...
Simon Waldman, 2013
7
Diseases of Small Domestic Rodents
A female may abandon or cannibalise her young if she is disturbed, if the nest is scant or if there is too little food and water. If the litter is very large or if the female develops agalactia she may cannibalise some of the young. The female should ...
Virginia C. G. Richardson, MA, VetMB, MRCVS, 2008
8
PROJECTS:
An oldrule of resource allocation prohibits cannibalisation because itseems tohurt the interest of the firm at least in theshortrun. However, many established firms have found that their disinclinationto cannibalise provided opportunitiesto other ...
Chandra, 2013
9
Essential Economics: An A to Z Guide
Cannibalise Eating people is wrong. Eating your own business may not be. firms used to be reluctant to launch new products and services that competed with what they were already doing, as the new thing would eat into (cannibalise) their  ...
Matthew Bishop, 2009
10
Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus
If some of the existing products are manufactured by the firm that is introducing the new product, the newcomers will cannibalise the old ones; that is, they will eat into the market share of their own kind. For example, it has been estimated that ...
Tim Hindle, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CANNIBALISE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cannibalise is used in the context of the following news items.
1
E-lending won't put a big dent in book sales
Ebooks, we've realised, will not cannibalise print. Lending them to the 51% of the population with library cards will likely have a negligible effect ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Duqm-Jebel Ali feeder service to start by year-end
... actually complement each other. “We are all owned by the government of Oman,” he said, adding, “We do not want to cannibalise each other. «Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide, Jul 15»
3
BANKS ONLY HAVE ONE OPTION TO SURVIVE DIGITAL …
To explore new business models could cannibalise or compete with their existing one. They also find themselves hamstrung by legacy: legacy ... «SourceWire, Jul 15»
4
Pelicans Scoop: Davis, Ajinca, Asik, and Free Agency
My only thing is that the West is so damn good I feel like teams will cannibalise each other win totals. Some of their lesser teams will start to ... «Bourbon Street Shots, Jul 15»
5
MSC predicts Seaside will draw Brits to Miami
“I don't think it will cannibalise demand in the short and medium term,” he insisted. “I don't think anyone will say, 'I'm going to wait'.”. «TTG Digital, Jul 15»
6
Hunting warns on profits as falling oil prices hit business
... 56% in North America and by 12% internationally since the start of the year, causing Hunting's customers to reduce stock and cannibalise existing equipment. «Proactive Investors UK, Jul 15»
7
Honda CR-V gets small price cut to help flagging sales
The higher model gets cannibalised by the lower model, so drop the price of the higher model to cannibalise sales back off the lower one! «CarAdvice, Jul 15»
8
Apple switches to music subscriptions, takes on Spotify
The new subscription service should "aggressively cannibalise Apple's music download business for the majority of users," he said. «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
9
How the successful cannabalise themselves
... so the only way forward is to make sure you're the one with the next insight – and you aren't afraid to let it cannibalise your last great success. «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
10
Can MyTeksi sustain both its car and taxi businesses?
Dominic Twyford, country director, Landor, said, “The way for companies to ensure that they don't cannibalise their brands is to tap in to the ... «Marketing Interactive, Jun 15»

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