Definition of "cannibalistic" [cannibalistic]

• Tending toward cannibalism. (adjective)

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• "A violent and what most have described as a cannibalistic impulse seemed to overtake the bodies as they started to attack and devour the living, said a police chief in Miami."
• "Crowded into tight quarters, lobsters become especially cannibalistic, which is why they must be banded in a lobster pound or store displays."
• "A god held up as the august lord of the universe was the pitiful and abject hero of an obscene love affair; the taurobolium, performed to satisfy man's most exalted aspirations for spiritual purification and immortality, looked like a shower bath of blood and recalled cannibalistic orgies."