Meaning of book burning | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mass burning of books, intended as a form of political and/or religious censorship.
   countable, literally, uncountable
2. Any mass destruction, removal, or recalling of books, motion pictures, broadcasts, or electronic works as a form of censorship, especially motivated by religious or political objections to the material.
   broadly, countable, idiomatic, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Exhuming McCarthy (meet me at the book burning, meet me at the book burning)”

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