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秘密地除去,秘密地消灭,扣压

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

   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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

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"