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Nov 26, 2009
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burke



Pronunciation: (bûrk), [key]
—v.t., burked, burk•ing.
1. to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
2. to suppress or get rid of by some indirect maneuver.

Burke



Pronunciation: (bûrk), [key]
—n.
1. Billie (Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke), 1886–1970, U.S. actress.
2. Edmund, 1729–97, Irish statesman, orator, and writer.
3. Kenneth Du•va Pronunciation: (dOO-vā'), [key] born 1897, U.S. literary critic.

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