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empurple en · VERB

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English em- English purple English empurple From em- + purple.

Meanings

  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 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  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.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
empurpling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
empurpled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
empurpled Tense=Past lexicographic
empurples Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

purple prose