noun🔗ShareThe act of eating another of one's own species."The tribe's practice of cannibalism horrified the explorers. "biologyanimalhumanfoodactioninhumanbodyculturereligionritualChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind."The company's aggressive expansion tactics were seen by some as a form of cannibalism, as they were eating up the market share of its own smaller branches. "inhumanactionbiologyorganismanimalhumanChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareIn speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, "Look, an MIT shirt" for "Look, an MIT T-shirt".""Look, an MIT shirt" is an example of cannibalism in speech. "linguisticswordphoneticslanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
