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

"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

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 Mitford, Bertram

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)