Burke

ahd-5
  • transitive verb. To suppress or extinguish quietly; stifle.
  • transitive verb. To avoid; disregard.
  • transitive verb. To execute (someone) by suffocation so as to leave the body intact and suitable for dissection.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To murder by suffocation in order to sell the body for dissection. This method was selected because it left no marks of violence upon the victims.
  • Figuratively, to smother; shelve; get rid of by some indirect manœuver: as, to burke a parliamentary question.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. 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.
  • verb. To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
  • noun. Variant spelling of berk.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)
  • verb. murder without leaving a trace on the body
  • noun. United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)
  • verb. get rid of, silence, or suppress
    • Word Usage
    "In Australian parlance, a "burke" is a clueless idiot, how very apt …"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bump off  conquer  curb  dispatch  frontierswoman  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Berk  Burk  Dirk  Kirk  Merc  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    shelve  smother  suppress  
    verb-form
    burked  burkes  burking  
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