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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Burked (0.01027 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Burked.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: burked
burked
adj : suppressed quietly or indirectly [syn:
burked(p)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Burked
Burke
\Burke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Burked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Burking.] [From one Burke of Edinburgh, who committed the
crime in 1829.]
1. 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.
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2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to
smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
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The court could not burke an inquiry, supported by
such a mass of a affidavits. --C. Reade.
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