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Definition of Burke

1. Verb. Murder without leaving a trace on the body.

2. Noun. British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797).

3. Verb. Get rid of, silence, or suppress. "Burke an issue"

4. Noun. United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903).

Definition of Burke

1. 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.

Definition of Burke

1. Proper noun. (surname topographical from=Middle English dot=) for someone who lived in a fortify fortified place. ¹

2. Proper noun. One of various places in the United States. ¹

3. 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. ¹

4. Verb. To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress. ¹

5. Noun. (British slang) Variant spelling of berk. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Burke

1. to murder by suffocation [v BURKED, BURKING, BURKES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Burke

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Literary usage of Burke

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"EDMUND Burke. I rejoice that a spirit is at last aroused about Edmund Burke, which must, I think, result in some information, be it more or less. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The difference between Pitt and Burke was nearly as great as that between ... In the sammer of 1791 Burke was struck to the ground by a blow to his deepest ..."

3. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1892)
"As has been said of Burke, " he changed his front, but he never changed his ground."' The mention of Burke cannot fail to suggest the likeness between the ..."

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