Usage examples (30)

• He put away -- "burked" -- the Directors letter, and went in to talk to Riley, who was as ungracious as usual, and fretting himself over the way the bank would run...
• It was infamous in him, they now say, to have your letters 'burked' in the post office, as it appears from
• As has been related, Cibber's alteration of "King John," which had been "burked" in 1736-7, was produced, from patriotic motives, in 1745.
• The dean especially would have burked it at once had he suspected its existence.