acabar com — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abolish verb To officially end a law, system, or practice.
- destroy verb To damage something so severely that it no longer exists or can't be repaired.
- kill verb To cause the death of a person, animal, or living thing.
- murder noun The crime of deliberately killing another person.
- ruin verb To destroy, spoil, or severely damage something so it no longer works or pleases.
Senses
acabar com is used for these senses in English:
- abolish (archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]
- destroy (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
- finish off (transitive) To finish completely.
- kill (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- murder (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To defeat decisively.
- ruin To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
destroy — full definition
- verb To damage something so severely that it no longer exists or can't be repaired.
- verb To defeat someone completely and overwhelmingly.
- verb To kill an animal deliberately, usually for humane or safety reasons.