burke: Meaning and Definition of
burke
Pronunciation: (bûrk), [key] — burked, burk•ing.
- to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
- to suppress or get rid of by some indirect maneuver.
Burke
Pronunciation: (bûrk), [key] — n.
- (Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke), 1886–1970, U.S. actress.
- 1729–97, Irish statesman, orator, and writer.
- born 1897, U.S. literary critic.
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