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耗尽

hào jìn

2-character word Traditional 耗盡

What 耗尽 means

1. to exhaust
2. to use up
3. to deplete
4. to drain

The characters in 耗尽

• 耗hàoto waste; to spend; to consume
• 尽jìnto use up; to exhaust; to end

Example sentences

• 我的力气耗尽了。
  Wǒ de lìqi hàojìn le.
  My strength is all gone.
• 我的耐心快要耗尽了。
  My patience is nearing its limit.
• 这件事耗尽了他的财力。
  Zhè jiàn shì hàojìn le tā de cáilì.
  This depleted his financial resources.
• 有科学家预计地球的石油储备将会在十年内耗尽。
  Yǒu kēxuéjiā yùjì dìqiú de shíyóu chǔbèi jiānghuì zài shí niánnèi hàojìn.
  Some scientists predict that the world oil reserves will be used up within a century.
• 对马尔萨斯虚构的「土地耗尽」定律最有力的反驳，是苏联集体农场的时间。
  The best refutation of the imaginary Malthusian laws of "land depletion" is the practice of Soviet collective farming.