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cannibalize

 verb
     
can‧ni‧bal‧ize also cannibalise British English [transitive]
1 to take parts of one machine to use in another, for example to repair it:
The truck was cannibalized for parts.
2 technical if one of a company's products cannibalizes another, it takes sales away from it
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