(~s, cannibalizing, ~d)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'cannibalise'
1.
If you ~ something, you take it to pieces and use it to make something else.
They ~d damaged planes for the parts.
VERB: V n
2.
If one of a company’s products ~s the company’s sales, people buy it instead of any of the company’s other products. (BUSINESS)
A website need not cannibalise existing sales.
VERB: V n