burke /ˈbɝk/
 (vt.)祕密地除去,祕密地消滅,扣壓
 Burke v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burked p. pr. & vb. n. Burking.]
 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.
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 Burke
      n 1: English statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause
           of the American colonists in Parliament and defended the
           parliamentary system (1729-1797) [syn: Edmund Burke]
      2: United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the
         Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903) [syn: Burk,
          Martha Jane Burk, Martha Jane Burke, Calamity Jane]
      v 1: murder without leaving a trace on the body
      2: get rid of, silence, or suppress; "burke an issue"