Dictionary Entry
burke
burke is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 6 senses
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- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
- 3noun
United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)
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- 4noun
British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)
- 5verb
get rid of, silence, or suppress
"burke an issue"
- 6verb
murder without leaving a trace on the body
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