empurple

Verb

empurple (third-person singular simple present empurples, present participle empurpling, simple past and past participle empurpled)

1. To make purple.
   • Some [wines] deep empurpled as the Hyacine,
     Some as the rubine, laughing sweetly red,
     Şome like fair emerauds, not yet well ripened1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
2. To enrage or anger, referring to making the face purple or red with blood.
3. Of writing, to make overly flowery or showy; to embellish unduly.