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English
Etymology
From em- + purple.
Pronunciation
Verb
empurple (third-person singular simple present empurples, present participle empurpling, simple past and past participle empurpled)
- To make purple.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Some [wines] deep empurpled as the Hyacine,
Some as the rubine, laughing sweetly red,
Şome like fair emerauds, not yet well ripened
- To enrage or anger, referring to making the face purple or red with blood.
- Of writing, to make overly flowery or showy; to embellish unduly.
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