devoured

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We will give a smart tap to the flints so as to loosen the clay domes, wrap these up in newspapers, fill our box and go home as fast as we can, for the air will soon be as fiery as the devil's kitchen Inspection, which is easier in the shade indoors, soon tells us that, though the devoured is always the wretched Mason-bee, the devourer belongs to two different species.

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  1. transitive verb To eat up greedily. See Synonyms at eat.
  2. transitive verb To destroy, consume, or waste: Flames devoured the structure in minutes.
  3. transitive verb To take in eagerly: devour a novel.

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