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CANNIBAL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who eats human flesh

Synonyms:

anthropophagite; anthropophagus; cannibal; man-eater

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("cannibal" is a kind of...):

barbarian; savage (a member of an uncivilized people)

Derivation:

cannibalic (marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage)

cannibalise (eat human flesh)

cannibalistic (characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism)

cannibalize (eat human flesh)

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