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Burke

//bɜː(ɹ)k// name, noun, verb, slang

Proper Noun

1
A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place. countable, uncountable
2
A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Shoshone County, Idaho. countable, uncountable
3
A number of places in the United States:; A town and village therein, in Franklin County, New York. countable, uncountable
4
A number of places in the United States:; A small city, the county seat of Gregory County, South Dakota. countable, uncountable
5
A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Angelina County, Texas. countable, uncountable

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A number of places in the United States:; A town in Caledonia County, Vermont, named after Edmund Burke. countable, uncountable
7
A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia. countable, uncountable
8
A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Grant County, Washington. countable, uncountable
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A number of places in the United States:; A town and unincorporated community therein, in Dane County, Wisconsin, named after Edmund Burke. countable, uncountable
10
A local government area in north-west Queensland, Australia, named after Robert O'Hara Burke; in full, the Shire of Burke. countable, uncountable

Noun

Verb

1
To murder by suffocation. Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, slang
"As soon as the executioner proceeded to his duty, the cries of ‘Burke him, Burke him—give him no rope’... were vociferated... ‘Burke Hare too!’"
2
get rid of, silence, or suppress wordnet
3
To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc. Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, historical, slang
""I don’t know that," interrupted the landlady; "Williams is a good hanging name: there was Williams who murdered the Marr's family, and Williams who burked all those poor dear children; I dare say he is some relation of theirs; but to think of his coming to the White Hart—it's no place for his doings, I can tell him: he sha'n't poison his wife in my house; out he goes this very night—I'll take the letter to him myself.""
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murder without leaving a trace on the body wordnet
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To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress. Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, slang
"The reporters left it out... Those who spoke in favour of the poor men, were what the reporters call burked."

Etymology 1

Eponymous, from William Burke.

Etymology 2

From an Anglo-Norman pronunciation of burg.

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