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Burke in British English
Edmund1729-97; Brit. statesman, orator, & writer, born in Ireland
to murder by suffocating so as to leave the body unmarked and fit to be sold for dissection
to murder in such a way as to leave no marks on the body, usually by suffocation
noun: Edmund. 1729–97, British Whig statesman, conservative political theorist, and orator, born in Ireland: defended parliamentary government and campaigned for a more liberal treatment of the American colonies; denounced the French Revolution
transitive verb: to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence

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