Definition of "cannibalized" [cannibalized]

• Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalize. (verb)

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• "Irresistible, her lone Motown LP, the label cannibalized some of the solo songs and remixed them into duets."
• "The story is actually two chapters cannibalized from the novel I'd been commissioned to write -- a few years ago a Spanish publisher gave me a contract for my first novel, anything I wanted to write as long as it was contemporary and urban (preferably set in Spain) and had both a gay male and a strong straight female main character, but my editor left the company when I was only halfway through it, and the editor who took over set about canceling numerous of his predecessor's contracts, including mine (they did pay me the second half of the advance, though)."
• "Schultz says that every year for the past five years, one third of all existing stores were "cannibalized" by new stores built in close proximity, a sign of its eagerness to make its $2-per-cup-of-coffee lifestyle as accessible as possible."