1) The act of unpleasantly and permanently ending
relations with another person, or an
organization.
2) To act harshly/disgracefully upon leaving a situation to ensure that you will not be welcomed back.
3) To cut off the way upon which you came from, making it
impossible to return or retreat.
1) Our
friendship was so broken by that point, the only way we could move on was to burn bridges between us.
2)She walked out of the store she was employed at, screaming and cursing at the management. She burned her bridges and will never be able to step back in there again.
3)In order to commit the troops to battle,
the general made the
difficult, and risky choice of burning bridges behind them.