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empurple
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Word definitions for empurple in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To make purple. 2 To enrage or anger, referring to making the face purple or red with blood. 3 Of writing, to make overly flowery or showy; to embellish unduly.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Empurple \Em*pur"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empurpled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Empurpling .] [Pref. em- + purple. Cf. Impurple .] To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. ``The deep empurpled ran.'' --Philips.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. color purple [syn: purple , purpurate ]
Usage examples of empurple.
He looked like Saint Stephen after the first volley of stones, with a bruise on his chin and a first-rate black eye, empurpled from browridge to cheekbone and swollen quite shut.
He is bent forward heavily in his seat, his thick apoplectic fingers braced upon his knees, his mouth ajar, his coarse, jowled, venously empurpled face and bulging yellow eyes turned out upon the crowd, in their constant expression of slow stupefaction.
So fashioned a Porch with rare deuice,Archt ouer head with an embracing vine,Whose bounches hanging downe, seemed to enticeAll passers by, to tast their lushious wine,And did themselues into their hands incline,As freely offering to be gathered:Some deepe empurpled as the Hyacint,Some as the Rubine, laughing sweetly red,Some like faire Emeraudes, not yet well ripened.
The—the engorgement and empurpling of his head are sufficient signs diagnostic, and I need not do autoptic surgery to confirm that.
And Aylmer, excluding the sunshine, which would have interfered with his chemical processes, had supplied its place with perfumed lamps, emitting flames of various hue, but all uniting in a soft, empurpled radiance.