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burning bridges

verb as in eliminate possibility of return

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Example Sentences

I dreamed at night of burning bridges and startling adventures.

Burning bridges, smouldering débris on the decks, piles of dead bodies.

Banks' force was so large that the most the enemy could do was to delay his advance by burning bridges and obstructing the river.

Then she turned off the hill road, feeling as though she had but to look back to see the smoke of the burning bridges.

But it may be that they are planning wrecking a train, burning bridges and the like.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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