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How to pronounce “burke”
Hear “burke” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for burke
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of burke with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Broadway's Stranger Things
Burke Swanson, and Juan Carlos, who will be discussing with us
- Definition summary
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To murder by suffocation.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce burke
Broadway's Stranger Things

Burke Swanson, and Juan Carlos, who will be discussing with us
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “burke”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To murder by suffocation.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, historical) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
- [Noun]
- (British, slang) Alternative form of berk.
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