burke
名词 n.
动词 v.
发音 bûrk
英文释义
名词 n.
- Alternative form of berk.
动词 v.
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To murder by suffocation.
— As soon as the executioner proceeded to his duty, the cries of ‘Burke him, Burke him—give him no rope’... were vociferated... ‘Burke Hare too!’
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To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
— "I don’t know that," interrupted the landlady; "Williams is a good hanging name: there was Williams who murdered the Marr's family, and Williams who burked all those poor dear children; I dare say he is some relation of theirs; but to think of his coming to the White Hart—it's no place for his doings, I can tell him: he sha'n't poison his wife in my house; out he goes this very night—I'll take the letter to him myself."
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To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
— The reporters left it out... Those who spoke in favour of the poor men, were what the reporters call burked.
词源
Eponymous, from William Burke.
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