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Word: burke (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • slang Variant spelling of berk.

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Proper noun:

  • One of various places in the United States.
  • topographical|from=Middle English|dot= for someone who lived in a fortified place.

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Verb:

  • To murder by suffocation, or as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.
  • To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.

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