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Meaning of
'Burke'
(Webster Dictionary)
1 .
Burke
[
v. t.
]
- 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.
- To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
Meaning of 'Burke' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 .
burke
[
v
]
Meaning (1):
- get rid of, silence, or suppress
Example in sentence:
burke an issue
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