noun🔗Share人吃人，同类相食 The act of eating another of one's own species."The tribe's practice of cannibalism horrified the explorers. "那个部落人吃人的习俗让探险家们感到震惊。biologyanimalhumanfoodactioninhumanbodyculturereligionritualChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share同类相食，自相残杀 An 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. "这家公司激进的扩张策略被一些人视为一种“同类相食”，因为它们正在蚕食自己较小分公司的市场份额.inhumanactionbiologyorganismanimalhumanChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share叠音省略，语音重叠省略。 In 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. "“Look, an MIT shirt”这个例子是口语中“叠音省略”的现象，也叫做“语音重叠省略”。linguisticswordphoneticslanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
