wear out

On Sundays, the best thing to do is have an activity that both gives us something new and wears out the kids.

“It gets everywhere, wears out all sorts of mechanisms,” says Mr White.

There was always a giant secondhand couch, and whenever it wore out someone would drag in a new one.

“It’s been really wonderful, but I realized I was really wearing out.”

The practice wears out the exhausted migrants, leaving them without funds to continue their journey.