burke

burke has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• v. t.. 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.
• v. t.. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
• n.. United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)
• n.. British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)
• v.. get rid of, silence, or suppress; "burke an issue"
• v.. murder without leaving a trace on the body