Ciao Paola,
il senso è senza dubbio quello spiegato da Angela

Sebbene di primo acchito suoni un po' forte, *cannibalized* viene usato dagli addetti ai lavori

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7D91F3BF...

Moreover, no columns or capitals *cannibalized from other monuments* ever found their way into this mausoleum. The delicate ring of double columns that supports the dome was made expressly for the structure.

www.ithaca.edu/faculty/oconnell/ memcit/376-318readingtung.htm

On *architectural cannibalization*, after papacy's return to Rome in 1420 - "We do know that a substantial architectural heritage, albeit much reduced, still existed at the time Martin V brough the papacy back to the city. Over the next two hundred years it became common practice before building any new structure to first identify the precise ruins to be *cannibalized* for their materials."

http://www.isjm.org/jhr/IInos3-4/news.htm

As a result, sadly, Mulla Ashur/Mulla Garji seems fated to disappear through *cannibalization of its structure* for new buildings.

www.choma.org/choma/data/docs/pub/churchreport-TEI.xml

In other words, the final ecclesiastical phase saw the *cannibalization* of the earlier church buildings and their accompanying furnishings for use in construction.

http://www.grosvenorprints.com/raroberts.htm

The madrassa of Qalawun was built with stone
*cannibalized *from the pyramids and other buildings, and included a public library.

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In alternativa puoi vedere se nella frase riesci a inserire *spolia*

www.choma.org/choma/data/docs/pub/churchreport-TEI.xml

At this point high quality materials were cut from extant marble supplies, stockpiled from an earlier age or plundered as *spolia*

www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/ nostalghia.com/TheTopics/Piero.html

The building is built largely from *spolia, cannibalized remains* of Roman and Etruscan architecture

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Molto interessante questo:

http://www.aps-pub.com/proceedings/1452/Kinney.pdf