'Burked' definitions:
Definition of 'burked'
From: WordNet
adjective
Suppressed quietly or indirectly
Definition of 'Burked'
From: GCIDE
- Burke \Burke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burked; p. pr. & vb. n. Burking.] [From one Burke of Edinburgh, who committed the crime in 1829.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question. [1913 Webster]
- The court could not burke an inquiry, supported by such a mass of a affidavits. --C. Reade. [1913 Webster]