Definitions for burkes

burkes burke

Spelling: [burk]
IPA: /bɜrk/

Burkes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in burkes (bekrsu).

Definitions for burkes

noun

  1. Billie (Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke) 1886–1970, U.S. actress.
  2. Edmund, 1729–97, Irish statesman, orator, and writer.
  3. Kenneth Duva [doo-vey] /duˈveɪ/ (Show IPA), 1897–1993, U.S. literary critic.
  4. Martha Jane, 1852?–1903, Calamity Jane.

verb (used with object)

  1. to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
  2. to suppress or get rid of by some indirect maneuver.

Origin of burkes

after W. Burke, hanged in 1829 in Edinburgh for murders of this kind

Examples for burkes

burke was fairly gasping over this outrage against his authority.

It is a place certainly worth visiting, and with burke as host, one that is difficult to leave.

Inspector burke himself filled the void in the halting sentence.

burke winced, but he made shift to conceal his realization of the truth she had stated to him.

"It's a man named burke," she explained, as her mistress lay blinking.

burke insists that he is not nostalgic and he is not delusional.

An earlier Marquette Law School poll showed a tighter race, but with burke again easily beating Walker by 18 points among women.

No friend of liberty can avoid the tumble back and forth between burke and Paine.

Robert Kennedy and his Assistant Attorney General burke Marshall brought new energy to the Civil Rights Division.

Inspector burke will tell you how easy it is for me to get it.

Word Value for burkes
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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