empurpled
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empurpled
- simple past and past participle of empurple
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empurpled (comparative more empurpled, superlative most empurpled)
- made purple, especially having a purple complexion because of rage etc.
- 2004. "Intended as ironic, this remark empurpled the anti-anti-Communists who predominated on the intellectual left." —Christopher Hitchens. "Susan Sontag: Remembering an intellectual heroine." [1]
- (of a text) over-embellished or flowery