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1. Murder without leaving a trace on the body
    
2. Get rid of, silence, or suppress
   "burke an issue"

1. United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)
   - Burk, Martha Jane Burk, Martha Jane Burke, Calamity Jane
    
2. British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)
   - Edmund Burke

Sounds like: berk, Burk

Derived forms: burking, burkes, burked, Burkes

Type of: bump off [informal], conquer, croak, dispatch, frontierswoman, hit, murder, national leader, off [N. Amer, informal], orator, polish off [informal], public speaker, remove, rhetorician, slay [literary], speechifier, speechmaker, stamp down, statesman, statesperson, subdue, suppress

Encyclopedia: Burke, Raymond