book burning

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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