Burke is valid Scrabble Word

Is burke a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is burke valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for BURKE in dictionary:

VERB:

to murder by suffocation
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.
To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
murder without leaving a trace on the body
get rid of, silence, or suppress
suppress or silence

NOUN:

a stupid person.
British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)
United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

murder in such a way as to leave no marks on the body, usually by suffocation

Words related to BURKE

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Words that contain BURKE

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How to use BURKE in a sentence

That Burke should have ventured on this step is significant, both as regards the Duke and Duchess, and Crabbe.
Burke, with quiet pride, but she thought, with a sinking heart, of the gap which this would make in her scanty income.
While I was lying on the ground, Andy Burke came up.
Mary Burke, of the Retail Clerks, from Findlay, Ohio.
Burke, however, and his companion, Cavanagh, looked like men between whom a warm friendship was about to grow up.
The truth is, that Burke, although apparently frank and candid, was constitutionally cautious, and inclined a good deal to suspicion.
Burke detected the quiver that Desmond tried to still.
William Burke was an Irish labourer who was executed in 1829, when he was found guilty of having murdered several people.
England was not yet reduced to the abject state in which Burke would have had the house believe she was in.
The lawyers, however, carried their point, and Burke was compelled to bring forward specific charges against the accused.

Kruger, who stood for the representation of Bristol with Burke.
Lord Rockingham repeated these tales to Burke, who of course denied them with indignation.
Burke was a gambler, they hint, in Indian stock, like his kinsmen Richard and William, and like Lord Verney, his political patron at Wendover.
With such assistance as they could get from the natives, Burke, and his two companions struggled on, until death overtook Burke and Wills at the end of June.
We are proud of using the same language as Sheridan, Burke, and Grattan used.
It is commonly believed that Burke was commended to Lord Rockingham by William Fitzherbert.
When he published his speech on the Nabob of Arcot, Burke prefixed to it an admirable quotation from one of the letters of the Emperor Julian.
Burke, we have to remember, did not stand alone before the world.
It was in the early summer of 1792 that Miss Burney again met Burke at Mrs.
Time and events, meanwhile, had been powerfully telling for Burke.
But Pitt was well aware of the serious embarrassments by which Burke was so pressed that he saw actual beggary very close at hand.
Neither was he dazzled, nor misled by the splendid talents of Burke, at this time in highest repute.
She turned her face, listening for the answer, and found Burke seated on another boulder not six yards away.
She had forgotten Burke, forgotten Kieff, forgotten everyone in that moment save Guy, the dear lover of her youth.
Somehow she felt out of touch with Burke at that moment.
Burke guided him with an unerring hand, holding him up firmly, for the way was difficult and uneven.
BURKE used every argument they could suggest, to relieve his anxiety.
Burke generally pounded sufficient for our dinner during our absence, but Mr.

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