empurpled

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empurpled - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Empurple \Em*pur"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empurpled; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Empurpling.] [Pref. em- + purple. Cf. Impurple.]
     To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to
     impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." --Philips.
     [1913 Webster]

empurpled - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  empurpled
      adj 1: excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of
             empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-
             embellished story of the fish that got away" [syn:
             empurpled, over-embellished, purple]