Word Meanings - BURKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary

Additional info about word: BURKE

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. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question. The court could not burke an inquiry, supported by such a mass of a affidavits. C. Reade.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BURKE)

• Choke
• Throttle
• strangle
• gag
• smother
• burke
• suffocate
• stifle
• Gag
• Silence
• muzzle
• hush
• Muzzle
• restrain
• stop
• Stifle
• throttle
• quench
• repress
• suppress
• extinguish

Related words: (words related to BURKE)

• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• CHOKECHERRY
  The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• STRANGLE HOLD
  In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.
• MUZZLE
  1. The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a horse; a snout. 2. The mouth of a thing; the end for entrance or discharge; as, the muzzle of a gun. 3. A fastening or covering for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• MUZZLE-LOADING
  Receiving its charge through the muzzle; as, a muzzle-loading rifle.
• THROTTLER
  See (more info) 1. One who, or that which, throttles, or chokes.
• CHOKER
  1. One who, or that which, chokes. 2. A stiff wide cravat; a stock.
• SMOTHERINESS
  The quality or state of being smothery.
• EXTINGUISH
  1. To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right. A light which the fierce winds have no power to extinguish.
• RESTRAIN
  restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or 1. To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down;
• STIFLE
  Etym: 1. To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust. Stifled with kisses,
• RESTRAINMENT
  The act of restraining.
• SMOTHERINGLY
  In a smothering manner.
• CHOKEDAR
  A watchman; an officer of customs or police.
• SUPPRESSION
  Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion. Quain. (more info) 1. The act of suppressing,
• UNMUZZLE
  To loose from a muzzle; to remove a muzzle from.
• ARTICHOKE
  word as carciofo; cf. older spellings archiciocco, archicioffo, carciocco, and Sp. alcachofa, Pg. alcachofra; prob. fr. Ar. al- 1. The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The
• SUFFOCATE
  Suffocated; choked. Shak.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• THROTTLE
  The throttle valve. Throttle lever , the hand lever by which a throttle valve is moved, especially in a locomotive. -- Throttle valve , a valve moved by hand or by a governor for regulating the supply of steam to the steam chest. In one form it
• INSUPPRESSIVE
  Insuppressible. "The insuppressive mettle of our spirits." Shak.
• OUTQUENCH
  To quench entirely; to extinguish. "The candlelight outquenched." Spenser.
• UNEXTINGUISHABLE
  Inextinguishable. -- Un`ex*tin"guish*a*bly, adv.