burke

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1. burke - Noun

2. burke - Verb

3. Burke - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.

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Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate, more important far than they all. Thomas Carlyle

And the final event to himself Mr. Burke has been, that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. Thomas Paine

The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke. Stanley Baldwin

Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form. Randall Jarrell

The fact is, Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together. Paul Keating

I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me. Nigella Lawson

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