cannibalise vs ingest

cannibalise and ingest both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cannibalise	No	No	Yes	No
ingest	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, ingest is a hypernym of cannibalise; that is, ingest is a word with a broader meaning than cannibalise:

Other hypernyms of cannibalise include consume, have, take, take in.

cannibalise (verb)	ingest (verb)
eat human flesh	take up mentally
use parts of something to repair something else	serve oneself to, or consume regularly