Burke

[bə:k]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797).

(verb.) get rid of, silence, or suppress; 'burke an issue'.

(verb.) murder without leaving a trace on the body.

錄入:索菲娅--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.

(v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.

哈洛錄入

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Stifle, shelve, strangle, smother

ANT:Enucleate, propound, promulge, publicate, promote, foster, reanimate,eliminate, ventilate, bruit, suscitate

校對:梅雷迪思

解釋/意思:

v.t. to murder esp. by stifling: hence (fig.) to put an end to quietly.

編輯:朱尔斯