decrease
耗 centers on gradual reduction or wearing away: a decrease in amount, strength, or resources over time.
耗 combines 耒 (a farming tool) with 毛 (hair/fine), suggesting the idea of something being worn down or reduced like a tool wearing thin or hair falling out.
A farming tool 耒 and hair 毛 together suggest something wearing thin: a tool losing its edge or hair thinning out, both showing a decrease.
For モウ, imagine a mower slowly decreasing the length of the grass: mow -> モウ, and the tool on the left helps cut it down.
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exhaustion; consumption; using up; dissipation; waste
wear; abrasion
wear; loss
attrition; occlusal wear
attrition; occlusal wear
diminished capacity; diminished responsibility; legally unaccountable (e.g. due to mental illness, drugs, alcohol, etc.)
person of diminished capacity (e.g. drugs, alcohol, mental retardation, etc.)
chronic wasting disease; CWD
casualty
consumable goods
expenses for consumable goods; supplies expenses
war of attrition
exhaustive
natural decrease
oil depletion
abrasion resistance; wear resistance
normal wear and tear; natural wear
weaken and decline