Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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empurple .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; to purple.
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- verb Alternative form of
empurple .
Etymologies
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Examples
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On the water, meanwhile, the last White Lilies are sinking beneath the surface, the last gay Pickerel-Weed is gone, though the rootless plants of the delicate Bladder-Wort, spreading over acres of shallows, still impurple the wide, smooth surface.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
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Daisies have snowed all over the Campagna, -- periwinkles star the grass, -- crocuses and anemones impurple the spaces between the rows of springing grain along the still brown slopes.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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The latter henceforth began to impurple our blood.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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THE clouds were gathering fast -- the waters were troubled -- and the approaching tumult and disquiet of all things in Carolina, clearly indicated the coming of that strife, so soon to overcast the scene -- so long to keep it darkened -- so deeply to impurple it with blood.
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