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exhaustion

NounSuru VerbTransitive VerbIntransitive Verb

Definitions

1. exhaustion
2. consumption

A noun and する verb meaning exhaustion, depletion, or wearing out, referring to the draining of energy, resources, or materials. It can describe both physical fatigue, as in 「体力を消耗する」(to drain one's stamina), and the consumption of supplies.

Example sentences

Sentence 1

All this sitting in traffic at the intersection is just burning fuel for nothing.

Sentence 2

The executive declared, "We will change the culture of treating people as disposable."

Sentence 3

Opening and closing the desk drawer so often wears out the rails.

Sentence 4

I sprinted up the stairs all morning and I'm completely drained!

Sentence 5

Rules that detailed just wear out the people on the ground, don't they?