cannibalize vs ingest

cannibalize and ingest both are verbs.

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

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

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

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