Definition of "burked" [burked]

• Simple past tense and past participle of burke. (verb)

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• "He put away -- "burked" -- the Directors letter, and went in to talk to Riley, who was as ungracious as usual, and fretting himself over the way the bank would run during his illness."
• "As has been related, Cibber's alteration of "King John," which had been "burked" in 1736-7, was produced, from patriotic motives, in 1745."
• "It was infamous in him, they now say, to have your letters 'burked' in the post office, as it appears from"