Burke

/bɜː(ɹ)k/

Synonyms for "burke" (21 found)

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Noun(4 words)
family namekilllast namemurder

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Noun(5 words)
smothersmothering murdersuffocatesuffocation murdersurname

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Burke and HareIrish surnameburke a bodyburke a victimburke the bodyburke victimsburkerburkingfamily namelast name

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Kristen Burke and Juncheng Qian had been dating for more than one-and-a-half years before they broke up six months ago.

Source: tatoeba (7770208)

Coral reefs are essential for coastal protection, and for the food security and economic wellbeing of millions of people around the world. They are an important source of protein, a potential source of pharmaceuticals, and as Lauretta Burke of the World Resources Institute points out, a valuable tourist attraction.

Source: tatoeba (12249457)

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!’

Source: wiktionary

"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."

Source: wiktionary

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