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Meaning of burke

- 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.

Crossword clue for burke

- Explorers: ... & Wills
- Wills’ fellow explorer