1. To get rid of, silence, or suppress; SYN. silence.
2. To murder without leaving a trace on the body.
To suppress quietly; to bypass or avoid.

(1792-1829) Irish murderer. He and his partner William Hare, living in Edinburgh, sold the body of an old man who had died from natural causes in their lodging house. After that, they increased their supplies by murdering at least 15 people. Burke was hanged on the evidence of Hare. Hare is said to have died a beggar in London in the 1860s.

(c. 1852-1903) Real name of US heroine Calamity Jane.

(1820-1861) Irish-born Australian explorer who made the first south-north crossing of Australia (from Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria), with William Wills (1834–1861). Both died on the return journey, and only one of their party survived.

(1787-1848) First publisher, in 1826, of Burke’s Peerage.

(1729-1797) British Whig politician and political theorist, born in Dublin, Ireland. In Parliament from 1765, he opposed the government’s attempts to coerce the American colonists, for example in Thoughts on the Present Discontents 1770, and supported the emancipation of Ireland, but denounced the French Revolution, for example in Reflections on the Revolution in France 1790.

(1901-) US rear admiral. During World War II, he earned the nickname “31-knot Burke” from his aggressive patrolling policy in the South Pacific. His squadron covered the US landings at Bougainville 1944 and fought over 20 separate engagements with Japanese naval forces.
He later became Chief of Staff to Carrier Task Force 58, and was appointed to head the research and development department in the Naval Bureau of Ordnance 1945.

1. City in South Dakota (USA).
2. City in Texas (USA).
3. Unincorporated community in Virginia (USA).
4. Village in New York (USA); zip code 12917.