A slang term for a murder which leaves the body intact, after William Burke who ran a business murdering people and selling the bodies to medical schools
Irish-born British politician and writer. Famous for his oratory, he pleaded the cause of the American colonists in Parliament and was instrumental in developing the notions of party responsibility and a loyal opposition within the parliamentary system. His major work, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), voices his opposition to the excesses of the French experience. See Martha Jane Burk
Burke calls for "a 'dramatistic' approach to the nature of language,...[one] stressing language as an aspect of 'action,' that is, as 'symbolic action'" (1034) Elsewhere Burke defines rhetoric as a "symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols" (A Rhetoric of Motives, 43)
{f} strangle; suffocate someone to death, murder somebody quietly and without leaving wounds or traces (Archaic); get rid of; silence, suppress; evade, avoid, bypass
Tom tripped and sprained his ankle. - Tom'un ayağı takıldı ve ayak bileği burkuldu.
Tom sprained his ankle. - Tom ayak bileği burktu.
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[ 'b&rk ] (transitive verb.) 1840. from burke to suffocate, from William Burke died 1829 Irish criminal executed for smothering victims to sell their bodies for dissection.