acabar
1 vtr to finish (off) , Ver nota en finish; (completar) to complete|2 vi u to finish, end: todo acabó bien, it all ended happily u a. con (agotar las existencias) to finish something; (romper algo) to break something; (matar) to kill; (destruir, eliminar) to destroy something: hay que a. con la tortura, we must get rid of torture u a. de: acaba de llegar de Río, he’s just arrived from Río; no acaba de decidirse, she hasn’t made up her mind yet u acabé creyendo/por creer que estaba loca, I ended up thinking she was mad
n acabarse vr to finish, come to an end: se nos acabó el aceite, we ran out of olive oil; excl fam ¡se acabó!, that’s that!
