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Definition of Empurple
1. Verb. Color purple.
Generic synonyms: Color, Color In, Colorise, Colorize, Colour, Colour In, Colourise, Colourize
Derivative terms: Purple, Purple
Definition of Empurple
1. v. t. To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple.
Definition of Empurple
1. Verb. To make purple. ¹
2. Verb. To enrage or anger, referring to making the face purple or red with blood. ¹
3. Verb. Of writing, to make overly flowery or showy; to embellish unduly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Empurple
1. to tinge with purple [v -PLED, -PLING, -PLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Empurple
Literary usage of Empurple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"It must have taken innumerable hogsheads of his thin vintage to empurple his face
in this manner. He chuckled much over the statue, and, I suppose, ..."
2. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1899)
"It must have taken innumerable hogsheads of his thin vintage to empurple his face
in this manner. He chuckled much over the statue, and, I suppose, ..."
3. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1888)
"It must have taken innumerable hogsheads of his thin vintage to empurple his face
in this manner. lie chuckled much over the statue, and, I suppose, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"when calmly led To meditate what rural life displays : empurple dark-eyed Brenta'sJ
... empurple dark-eyed Brenta— . Gently flows The deep-dy'd Brenta. ..."
5. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"~^a//(pap ) hortera de sacar 1л pasta, to empurple (tint. ... v. to empurple.
encumbrance- ..."
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