- cannibalize (v.)
[cannibalize 词源字典]
- 1798 (in Burke's memoirs), figurative, and meaning "be perverted into cannibalism," from cannibal + -ize. Meaning "take parts from one construction and use them in another" is from 1943, originally of military equipment. Related: Cannibalized; cannibalizing. [cannibalize etymology, cannibalize origin, 英语词源]