He put away—burked—the Directors' letter, and went in to talk to Riley.
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
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)
To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question
{f} strangle; suffocate someone to death, murder somebody quietly and without leaving wounds or traces (Archaic); get rid of; silence, suppress; evade, avoid, bypass
"I'll give this much to Burke, he was a man of nerveBut he couldn't pick a bushman from a cove "