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

to exhaust / to use up / to deplete / to drain
to waste / to spend / to consume / to squander
time-consuming / to take a period of (x amount of time)
to spend / expenditure / to cost
to consume electricity / power consumption
requiring much time and effort
to require much effort
(of sth that should be retained: nutrients, moisture, heat etc) to be lost
you're on your own (pun on 好自為之|好自为之[hao3 zi4 wei2 zhi1])
to dissipate / to squander
to consume energy / energy consumption

Sentences with 耗

耗 currently does not appear in any sentence.