to exhaust; to use up; to deplete; to drain

(dialect) mouse; rat

to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander

to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander; news; (coll.) to delay; to dilly-dally

news of sb's death; sad news

time-consuming; to take a period of (x amount of time)

damage (e.g. to goods in transit)

low consumption (energy, fuel etc)

internal friction; internal dissipation of energy (in mechanics); fig. waste or discord within an organization

electric consumption; power wastage

to write back; to send a reply

loss of goods; damage to goods; shrinkage

loss; depletion; wastage; wear and tear; to incur loss; to waste; to consume (energy etc); (in engineering) loss (of energy, signal strength etc)

fuel consumption

fuel consumption

wear and tear; wearing out by friction

to require much effort

(of sth that should be retained: nutrients, moisture, heat etc) to be lost

to waste

to dissipate; to squander

consumables; to consume raw materials

to consume electricity; power consumption

to consume energy

to spend; expenditure; to cost

energy consumption

message

consumables

consumable goods; expendable item

war of attrition

rate of consumption

fuel consumption

lit. a dog who catches mice; to be meddlesome (idiom)

the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom); hypocritical pretence of condolence; crocodile tears

you're on your own (pun on 好自為之|好自为之[hao3 zi4 wei2 zhi1])

requiring much time and effort

a blind cat finds a dead mouse (idiom); blind luck