empurple

American  

[em-pur-puhl] / ɛmˈpɜr pəl /

verb (used with or without object)

empurpled, empurpling

1. to color or become purple or purplish.

2. to darken or redden; flush.

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Etymology

Origin of empurple

First recorded in 1580–90; em- ¹ + purple

Example Sentences

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

The furnace, it is true, would, when it flamed heartily, throw a brightness about it; but often it sank into redness that did but empurple the gloom.

From The Frozen Pirate by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)

"Did not some song empurple Nisus' hair, "And bid young Pelops' ivory shoulder glow?

From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Williams, Theodore C.

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 Thomson, Hugh

Magnificent weather, one of those sun risings that empurple landscapes, left the river all its limpid serenity.

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre