Illustration: At a community art class, an adult repeatedly rubs out charcoal shading on a practice sheet. Their eraser has worn down to a tiny rounded nub barely held between two fingers, and a substantial scatter of eraser crumbs surrounds the worked area.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

消しょう耗もう

shoumou

to use up, to wear out

Example sentences

  1. その男おとこの子この世話せわで彼女かのじょは非常ひじょうに精力せいりょくを消耗しょうもうする。

    Taking care of the boy is a great drain on her energies.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 簡単かんたんそうに見みえるけど、結構体力けっこうたいりょく消耗しょうもうするなぁ。

    It looks easy, but it’s pretty exhausting.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. これは城内じょうないの食料しょくりょうを早々そうそうに消耗しょうもうさせようという計略けいりゃくであった。

    In this way, he schemed to exhaust the food inside the castle as soon as possible.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 消耗

  • 消extinguish; turn offOnショウKunきえる・けす
  • 耗decreaseOnモウ・コウ

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