Burking

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  • v. Present participle of burke.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling the bodies for dissection.
  • n. Killing by suffocation; figuratively, a private suppression of a proposition, bill, or the like.
  • n. Specifically, in medicine, suffocation due to tonic spasm of the muscles of respiration.
    • Word Usage
    "The claim made in the Observer that the 18th-century obstetricians, given that they obtained the corpses of the pregnant women that they experimented upon through "burking" - having people murdered to order - came as a shock to many medics."
    Verb Form
    burked    burkes    burking   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    speechmaker    speechifier    public speaker    orator    solon   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    suppress    smother    shelve   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Berk    Burk    Dirk    Kirk    Merc   
     
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