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bookburning

bookburning is the alternative form of book-burning.

Meaning of book-burning

Noun

book-burning (countable and uncountable, plural book-burnings)

  1. The practice of destroying books by fire because of moral, religious or political objections to the material they contain.
  2. An event where books are burned.
    • […] only a month after 75 students there held a public bookburning of their student handbok for its gay content.1981 February 14, Joanne Brown, “Feminist Starts Uproar By Putting Up Sticker”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 3

Forms of bookburning

pluralbookburnings

Questions about bookburning

What is bookburning the alternative form of?
Bookburning is the alternative form of book-burning.

Words near bookburning in the dictionary

  1. bookbuilding
  2. bookbuildings
  3. bookbuilds
  4. bookburner
  5. bookburners
  6. bookburning
  7. bookbus
  8. bookbuses
  9. bookcard
  10. bookcards
  11. bookcase

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bookburning (page history and authors); book-burning (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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