Word Meaning

Meaning of "burked" and the crossword clue

- Explorers: ... & Wills
- Wills’ fellow explorer
- Bypassed
- 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.
- To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
- of Burke