Empurple

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1
To make purple.
"Some [wines] deep empurpled as the Hyacine, Some as the rubine, laughing sweetly red, Şome like fair emerauds, not yet well ripened"
2
color purple wordnet
3
To enrage or anger, referring to making the face purple or red with blood.
4
Of writing, to make overly flowery or showy; to embellish unduly.

Synonyms

purple purple purpurate

Example

"Some [wines] deep empurpled as the Hyacine, Some as the rubine, laughing sweetly red, Şome like fair emerauds, not yet well ripened"

Etymology

From em- + purple.

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