to waste / to spend / to consume / to squander / news / (coll.) to delay / to dilly-dally

= + : Hamlet (h) got the task to drive a plow (耒) through a lot of hair (毛) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4). He thinks that it is just a waste (耗) of gasoline (油耗) because it requires a lot of time and energy (耗时耗力), but he does it anyway.

耗 character breakdown

surname Mao
hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])

= 丿 + + : Mahatma Gandhi finally found a way to get some hair again: Just inside the aorta's kitchen, he used a shovel to dig up several Cartesian coordinate systems. He rejoices, because finally his dream of being a punk once again can finally come true.

= 丿 + + : Mahatma Gandhi finally found a way to get some hair again: Just inside the aorta's kitchen, he used a shovel to dig up several bananas. Using a charged capacitor, he fuses them to his head.
plow

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a big modern plow used to free the streets from snow.

Sir Lancelot (l) is clearing the Eiffel Tower (ei3) from snow using his plow (耒). There are sometimes eight balls (八) hidden under the snow which he collects in a golden cage (丰) so as not to damage his plow.

Characters with 耗 as component

耗 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 耗

news of sb's death / grievous news
news of sb's death; sad news
electric consumption / power wastage
low consumption (energy, fuel etc)
to write back / to send a reply
loss of goods / damage to goods / shrinkage
damage (e.g. to goods in transit)
internal friction / internal dissipation of energy (in mechanics) / fig. waste or discord within an organization

Sentences with 耗

耗 currently does not appear in any sentence.