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burning bridges

VERB

eliminate possibility of return

Synonyms

WEAK

burn one's boats go for broke kick down the ladder nail one's colors to the mast

Example Sentences

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The young housewife in Madison, her doctors suspected, was not "burning" carbohydrates in the normal way and converting them into carbon dioxide and water.

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