N2845/1725

消しょう耗もう

nounnoun (generic)noun or participle taking the aux. verb するtransitive verbintransitive verb

Reading

しょうもう

Meanings

exhaustion, consumption, using up, dissipation, waste

Learn in context

Example sentences

長時間ちょうじかんの会議かいぎは精神的せいしんてきな消耗しょうもうを引ひき起おこす。

Long meetings cause mental exhaustion.

激はげしい運動うんどうで体力たいりょくを消耗しょうもうしてしまった。

I ended up depleting my physical strength through intense exercise.

このプロジェクトはスタッフの消耗しょうもうが激はげしく、早急さっきゅうな対策たいさくが必要ひつようだ。

This project is causing severe staff burnout, and urgent measures are needed.

電池でんちの消耗しょうもうを防ふせぐために、使つかわないアプリは閉とじておいてください。

Please close apps you are not using in order to prevent battery drain.

資源しげんを無駄むだに消耗しょうもうしないよう、企業きぎょうは効率的こうりつてきなエネルギー管理かんりを求もとめられている。

Companies are required to manage energy efficiently so as not to wastefully consume resources.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)