empurple
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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to color or become purple or purplish.
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to darken or redden; flush.
Etymology
Origin of empurple
Example Sentences
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It seems obvious now, but Updike was one of the first to show that you don’t have to write down about sports or empurple them, either.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2010
No skill was theirs the luscious grape With honey's sweetness to confuse; Nor China's soft and sheeny silks T' empurple with brave Tyrian hues.
From The Consolation of Philosophy by H. R. (Henry Rosher) James
But the moments vent by, and still no hideous stain rose to empurple the green translucent plain of liquid light.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
Now the winds played with its leaves and tendrils; and the warmth of the sun began to empurple its hard green grapes, and to prepare within them a sweet and delicious juice.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 356, February 14, 1829 by Various
In winter, pheasants crouch under the brushwood or splutter through the trees; in summer the rhododendrons scent and empurple the woodland rides.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson
When Ms. Diski acted like the teenager she was, sneaking out of windows or bringing boys home, Lessing would become empurpled with rage.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2016
Every grand action is followed by a great, empurpled outpouring of words.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 22, 2016
He played Maggie Smith's increasingly jealous husband in Peter Shaffer's The Public Eye in 1962 and was an empurpled cardinal in Edward Albee's Tiny Alice at the Aldwych in 1970.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2011
Ms. Buffini’s script, while it trims and winnows some of Brontë’s empurpled passages, preserves important elements of the author’s language, including, above all, Jane’s repeated invocations of freedom as an ethical and personal ideal.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2011
Its face was empurpled with rage at its limited dominion.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
But, taken as a whole, the play fails, and for three reasons: a faultiness of structure, an obsessiveness of attitude, an empurpling theatricalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Greening of America has succeeded in empurpling not a few reviewers and readers with rage.
From Time Magazine Archive
I tied it so tight as I could, fearful also of empurpling the forearm.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
The fine, empurpling dye of sunset still stained the western skies, but the moon was rising and the water lay like a great, silver dream in her light.
From Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
But see to it," he ended, with a sudden and most unreasonable ferocity, his visage empurpling if possible still more, "see to it that you pit neither that courage nor that wit against me again.
From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Rafael Sabatini
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