Burke

Definition of Burke

v. t.	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. [imp. & p. p. Burked ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Burking.]
	2.	To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question. The court could not burke an inquiry, supported by such a mass of a affidavits. - C. Reade.

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