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Definition of burked in English English dictionary
- burked(p)
- suppressed quietly or indirectly
- Burke
- One of various places in the United States
- Burke
- A topographical surname for someone who lived in a fortified place
- burke
- To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress
He put away—burked—the Directors' letter, and went in to talk to Riley.
- burke
- 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
- One of various places located in the United States
- Burke
- 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
- an English surname
- burk
- United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)
- burke
- A research company that tests commercial recall
- burke
- 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
- burke
- To murder by suffocation, or as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection
- burke
- United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)
- burke
- English statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)
- burke
- Variant spelling of berk
- burke
- 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)
- burke
- To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question
- burke
- {f} strangle; suffocate someone to death, murder somebody quietly and without leaving wounds or traces (Archaic); get rid of; silence, suppress; evade, avoid, bypass
- burke
- "I'll give this much to Burke, he was a man of nerveBut he couldn't pick a bushman from a cove "
- burke
- get rid of, silence, or suppress; "burke an issue"
- burke
- murder without leaving a trace on the body
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Definition of burked in Turkish English dictionary
- burk
- {f} wrench
- burk
- {f} wrenching
- burk
- {f} sprain
A sprained ankle disabled him from walking for a month.
-Burkulmuş bir ayak bileği onu bir ay yürümekten alıkoydu.
Tom tripped and sprained his ankle.
-Tom'un ayağı takıldı ve ayak bileği burkuldu.
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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.Resimler
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