burked
/bɜrkt/
adjective
- Suppressed or kept hidden.
- The burked report was finally released after public pressure.
- The burked scandal resurfaced years later.
- Her burked feelings eventually came out in therapy.
Synonyms
verb
- Past tense of burke: suppressed or avoided quietly.
- She burked any mention of the accident.
- The manager burked the complaint and hoped it would go away.
- They burked the issue during the meeting.
- Past tense of burke: murdered by suffocation (historical).
- The victim was burked and sold to the anatomy school.
- He burked his victim without leaving a mark.
- The notorious killer burked several people in the 1820s.