What is "cannibalize"

Usage examples of "cannibalize".

As for the cannons, they would have to be cannibalized from some of the schooners, a risky move since Nicabar would no doubt arrive with escort ships.

The ruins of an earlier generation of shacks and sheds stood here and there throughout the valetwisted metal structures cannibalized for their materials, collapsed domes, sagging plastic cryocabins with gaping holes in the walls and roofs.

More would fall this winter, Russie thought, and buildings wrecked in two rounds of fighting would be cannibalized for wood.

Lieutenant Robbins and I have worked out a plan whereby we can salvage seven of our most severely damaged Speeds by cannibalizing four that were too damaged to repair, leaving us with a total of twenty-six more or less operable, although our supply of spares is dangerously low.

Near the back, squeezed in among replacement parts for steamers and broilers and wavers, he found two older Ksarus which had been partly cannibalized for parts, and one gleaming current model.

Outside of the wire there was a full-scale vagrant jungle, complete with dead vehicles, cannibalized containers, Styrofoam and cardboard shanties, cookfires, and teeming humanity.

Many Iraqi aircraft have been cannibalized to provide spare parts, while others are capable of only very short flights.

Matt straps in alongside the others, in cannibalized, bolted-down seats that were originally designed for minor jolts and unscheduled burns in free-fall maneuvering.

Lydia had not expected that the clutter of data-input devices, tangles of cable, and cannibalized electrical apparatus on the tilted table could be the controls.

The rest of the panels, reliefs and medallions had been cannibalized from monuments to earlier emperors such as Hadrian, Trajan and Marcus Aurelius.

Using their bodies to shield their efforts from the tireless spy eye, Blanchard and his freinds had cannibalized portions of that equipment.

As early as the 18th century, publishers and booksellers expressed the fear that libraries will cannibalize their trade.

And we can get the other elements needed by cannibalizing, and an alloying unit aboard could be adapted to manufacture the transistors themselves.

A pre-war Chinese tank engine that had been cannibalized years ago, nothing more than a collection of barcoded spare parts, keeping old trains on the branch lines serviceable.

George Breze was a one-man conglomerate who operated his sprawling empire from a shack on Sandpit Road, surrounded by rental trucks, mini-storage buildings, a do-it-yourself car wash, and junk cars waiting to be cannibalized.