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Empurpled

adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    made purple, especially having a purple complexion because of rage etc.

    "2004. "Intended as ironic, this remark empurpled the anti-anti-Communists who predominated on the intellectual left." —Christopher Hitchens. "Susan Sontag: Remembering an intellectual heroine." http://www.slate.com/id/2111506"

  2. 2
    over-embellished or flowery
Adjective
  1. 1
    excessively elaborate or showily expressed wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of empurple form-of, participle, past

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