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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Burke \Burke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Burked}; p. pr & vb n. {Burking}.] [From one Burke of Edinburgh, who committed the crime in 1829.] 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. 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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