"burn one's boats" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "* Perhaps in reference to Tariq Ibn Ziyad, who gave the order to burn his own ships when he landed in Gibraltar, beginning the Islamic conquest of Spain in 711.\n* Perhaps in reference to Hernán Cortés, who gave the order to destroy his own ships (in reality, by sinking them) when he landed in Veracruz to begin his conquest in 1519.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "burns one's boats",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burning one's boats",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burned one's boats",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burned one's boats",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burnt one's boats",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burnt one's boats",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "past2": "burnt one's boats"
      },
      "expansion": "burn one's boats (third-person singular simple present burns one's boats, present participle burning one's boats, simple past and past participle burned one's boats or burnt one's boats)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cut oneself off from all chance of retreat; to stake everything on success."
      ],
      "id": "en-burn_one's_boats-en-verb-xO0xU~58",
      "links": [
        [
          "retreat",
          "retreat"
        ],
        [
          "stake",
          "stake"
        ],
        [
          "success",
          "success"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "burn one's bridges"
        },
        {
          "word": "damn the torpedoes"
        },
        {
          "word": "go for broke"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Hernán Cortés",
        "Tariq Ibn Ziyad"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "burn one's boats"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "* Perhaps in reference to Tariq Ibn Ziyad, who gave the order to burn his own ships when he landed in Gibraltar, beginning the Islamic conquest of Spain in 711.\n* Perhaps in reference to Hernán Cortés, who gave the order to destroy his own ships (in reality, by sinking them) when he landed in Veracruz to begin his conquest in 1519.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "burns one's boats",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burning one's boats",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burned one's boats",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burned one's boats",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burnt one's boats",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burnt one's boats",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "past2": "burnt one's boats"
      },
      "expansion": "burn one's boats (third-person singular simple present burns one's boats, present participle burning one's boats, simple past and past participle burned one's boats or burnt one's boats)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "burn one's bridges"
    },
    {
      "word": "damn the torpedoes"
    },
    {
      "word": "go for broke"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cut oneself off from all chance of retreat; to stake everything on success."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "retreat",
          "retreat"
        ],
        [
          "stake",
          "stake"
        ],
        [
          "success",
          "success"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Hernán Cortés",
        "Tariq Ibn Ziyad"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "burn one's boats"
}