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burke

\BURK\ , verb;

1. To suppress or get rid of by some indirect maneuver.

2. To murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.

Quotes:

 "If he means that the reviewers will burke me as far as they can, no doubt he is right; but when I am dead there will be other reviewers and I have already done enough to secure that they shall from time to time look me up."

-- Samuel Butler, The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

"Holding her was a rage and a torment and there was the dressing-gown and the teddy and 'Chop, chop, here comes a chopper' to burke him."

-- Audrey Lillian Barker, John Brown's body

 This is a good word to use in your story. How would you use burke in a sentence? Don't be shy. 

I know that because she thinks she is in love with Roy, Lacey will stop at nothing to burke me, even if it's a misunderstanding, which it is not, but never the less she has no acumen to do so besides just be insanely insane.  -- Khadija Craddock, Awakened

 Now its your turn to use the word.