meaning of burk

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.
2.
To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.


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