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burkite

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burke

  [burk]
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–verb (used with object), burked, burk⋅ing.
1. to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
2. to suppress or get rid of by some indirect maneuver.
Origin:
after W. Burke, hanged in 1829 in Edinburgh for murders of this kind

Related forms:
burker, burk⋅ite  [bur-kahyt] , noun
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