Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Burke \Burke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Burked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Burking}.] [From one Burke of Edinburgh, who committed the
crime in 1829.]
1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of
violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold
for dissection.
[1913 Webster]
2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to
smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
[1913 Webster]
The court could not burke an inquiry, supported by
such a mass of a affidavits. --C. Reade.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Burke
n 1: British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause
of the American colonists in British Parliament and
defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797) [syn:
{Burke}, {Edmund Burke}]
2: United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild
West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903) [syn: {Burk},
{Martha Jane Burk}, {Burke}, {Martha Jane Burke}, {Calamity
Jane}]
v 1: murder without leaving a trace on the body
2: get rid of, silence, or suppress; "burke an issue"
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