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
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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
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 W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
"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 Theodore C. Williams
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 Alexandre Dumas père
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
"Ged, sir," said Colonel Starbottle, absolutely empurpling with pleasure, and exploding his handkerchief from his sweltering breast.
From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte
Binet, his face slowly empurpling, glared at him in speechless stupefaction.
From Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
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