burke

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boğmak
{f} örtbas etmek
dolambaçlı bir davranışla bir seyden sıyrılmak
{f} bastırmak
{f} susturmak

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English - English
One of various places in the United States
A topographical surname for someone who lived in a fortified place
To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress

He put away—burked—the Directors' letter, and went in to talk to Riley.

To murder by suffocation, or as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection

You don’t mean to say he was burked, Sam?’ said Mr. Pickwick, looking hastily round.

Variant spelling of berk
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
One of various places located in the United States
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
an English surname
A research company that tests commercial recall
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
United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)
English statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)
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 "
get rid of, silence, or suppress; "burke an issue"
murder without leaving a trace on the body

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Burke's Barrage
A pattern involving juggling three or more props whilst crossing and uncrossing one's arms
Burke's Peerage
a book that gives details of all the noble families in the UK who have special titles such as 'Duke' or 'Earl'
Edmund Burke
a British Whig politician, born in Dublin, Ireland. He wrote many works of political theory and was also a great speaker (1729-97). born January 12?, 1729, Dublin, Ire. died July 9, 1797, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Eng. British parliamentarian, orator, and political philosopher. The son of a lawyer, he began legal studies but lost interest, became estranged from his father, and spent some time wandering about England and France. Essays he published in 1757-58 gained the attention of Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kant, and Gotthold Lessing, and he was hired to edit a yearly survey of world affairs (1758-88). He entered politics (1765) as secretary to a Whig leader and soon became involved in the controversy over whether Parliament or the monarch controlled the executive. He argued (1770) that George III's efforts to reassert a more active role for the crown violated the constitution's spirit. Elected to Parliament (1774-80), he contended that its members should exercise judgment rather than merely follow their constituents' desires. Although a strong constitutionalist, he was not a supporter of pure democracy; although a conservative, he eloquently championed the cause of the American colonists, whom he regarded as badly governed, and he supported the abolition of the international slave trade. He tried unsuccessfully to legislate relief for Ireland and to reform the governance of India. He disapproved of the French Revolution for its leaders' precipitous actions and its antiaristocratic bloodshed. He is often regarded as the founder of modern conservatism
burke

    Hyphenation

    Burke

    Turkish pronunciation

    bırk

    Pronunciation

    /ˈbərk/ /ˈbɜrk/

    Etymology

    [ 'b&rk ] (transitive verb.) 1840. Eponym, from William Burke.
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