You cannibalize and that's why we use the term cannibalize because that's exactly what is happening not only to us, but to others.
The problem is that banks may be reluctant to "cannibalize" on their overdraft fee income with lower-cost loans, Bair wrote in a 2005 report when she taught at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
And now we arrive at a juncture where the budget crisis ostensibly is being used as cover to "cannibalize" the state's education system, quite possibly in an irreparable manner.
Sales of Xience, a drug-eluting stent, or DES, acquired from Guidant, may "cannibalize" Boston Scientific's Taxus sales but appears manageable, according to the Morgan Stanley analyst.
This year, Munster estimated, Verizon stands to "cannibalize" the sales of 6.5 million iPhones that might have been sold by AT&T.
Reiner said he expects the iPad to "cannibalize" sales of competitors who are trying to sell netbooks.
In addition to the netbook data, Huberty released another chart showing which other device categories iPad would "cannibalize" (with some fava beans and a nice Chianti, no doubt).
His intent, he said, is to attract new people to yoga rather than "cannibalize" the existing market by taking other studios 'customers.