acabar
= end, end up, see through + to its completion, finish up, finish, wind up, curtain + fall, call it quits, lay to + rest, wrap up, break up, finish off, top off.
Ex: Each field also ends with a special delimiter, which signals the end of the fields.
Ex: But if you have a certain feeling about language, then language ends up becoming very, very important.
Ex: I would like to thank all those who at various times throughout the course of the project assisted so ably in seeing the work through to its completion.
Ex: In trying to get the best of both worlds, we may have finished up with the worst.
Ex: Activities can be plotted to allow the librarian to determine the most expeditious route that can be taken to finish the event.
Ex: Besides, winding up in an exclusive arrangement with a distributor that has rotten customer service ruins any advantage.
Ex: The third act is of course the denouement, when everything is made clear, all the loose ends are tied up, and the curtain falls.
Ex: "Professional people don"t live by the clock: you wouldn"t tell a doctor or a lawyer that he couldn"t make a decision to call it quits on a particular day".
Ex: A New Orleans style funeral provided a humorous backdrop for library staff to relive the tragedies and successes of the old system as it was laid to rest.
Ex: The article is entitled "ACRL wraps up year 1 of Academic Library Statistics Project".
Ex: Tom Hernandez tried not to show how sad he felt about his friends" leaving, and managed to keep up a cheerful facade until the party broke up.
Ex: His statement is a serious threat to the cooperative sector and was aimed at finishing off the movement.
Ex: Top it off with spicy yacamole and it's worth the nosh.
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* acabar cargando con Algo = wind up with + Nombre.
* acabar con = put + paid to, quell, put to + rest, snuff out, stamp out.
* acabar con Algo = be done with it.
* acabar de + Infinitivo = have + just + Participio Pasado.
* acabar de salir de = be fresh out of.
* acabar el entusiasmo = run out of + steam.
* acabar en = result (in), land in.
* acabar mal = come to + a bad end.
* acabar paulatinamente = wind + Nombre + down.
* acabar + Posesivo + días en = end up + Posesivo + days in.
* acabar + Posesivo + vida útil = run towards + the end of + Posesivo + useful life.
* acabarse = draw to + a close, peter out, run out, be gone, come to + an end, run out of, draw to + an end.
* acabarse el espacio = run out of + space.
* acabarse el tiempo = time + run out, time + be + up.
* acabarse la buena racha = the good times + run out.
* acabar teniendo = end up with.
* empezar a acabarse = run + low (on).
* estar acabándose = be on the way out, be on + Posesivo + last legs.
* nada se acaba hasta que no se acaba = nothing is done until it's done.
* ¡se te acabó el cuento! = the jig's up!.
* tumulto + acabar = tumult + die.