Definition of "burking" [burking]

• Present participle of burke. (verb)

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• "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."
• ""Smellie and Hunter were responsible for a series of 18th-century 'burking' murders of pregnant women, with a death total greater than the combined murders committed by Burke and Hare and Jack the Ripper," writes Don Shelton, a historian."
• "In spite of all this burking of crime, UP stands first in whole of India in terms of crime against dalits."