to waste / to spend / to consume / to squander / news / (coll.) to delay / to dilly-dally
耗
=
毛
+
耒
:
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.
to use up / to exhaust / to end / to finish / to the utmost / exhausted / finished / to the limit (of sth) / all / entirely
尽
=
⺀
+
尺
:
Someone or something is using up all the blossoms in the encampment's bathroom, each day one more is missing. Joan of Arc wants to find out when they will be used up, so each day, she measures the remaining blossoms with a tape-measure.