耗费 hàofèi HSK7 consume Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 耗费 (耗費) hàofèi consume verb to expend or use up resources such as time, energy, or money 这项工程耗费了大量的人力和物力。 zhè xiàng gōngchéng hàofèi le dàliàng de rénlì hé wùlì. This project consumed a vast amount of manpower and material resources. waste verb to use resources recklessly, inefficiently, or to squander them 他把大好青春都耗费在游戏上了。 tā bǎ dàhǎo qīngchūn dōu hàofèi zài yóuxì shàng le. He wasted his best years playing games. Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 1.64 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 5.49 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 6 HSK 3.0 Level 7 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
耗费 (耗費) hàofèi consume verb to expend or use up resources such as time, energy, or money 这项工程耗费了大量的人力和物力。 zhè xiàng gōngchéng hàofèi le dàliàng de rénlì hé wùlì. This project consumed a vast amount of manpower and material resources. waste verb to use resources recklessly, inefficiently, or to squander them 他把大好青春都耗费在游戏上了。 tā bǎ dàhǎo qīngchūn dōu hàofèi zài yóuxì shàng le. He wasted his best years playing games. Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 1.64 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 5.49 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 6 HSK 3.0 Level 7 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)