Burke

  1. Proper noun.  (surname, topographical) for someone who lived in a fortified place.
  2. Proper noun.  One of various places in the United States.
  3. Verb.  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.
  4. Verb.  To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
  5. Noun.  (British, slang) Variant spelling of berk.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.