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empurpling

empurpling is the present participle and gerund of empurple.

Meaning of 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.

Questions about empurpling

What is empurpling the present participle and gerund of?
Empurpling is the present participle and gerund of empurple.

Words near empurpling in the dictionary

  1. empugning
  2. empugns
  3. empurple
  4. empurpled
  5. empurples
  6. empurpling
  7. empusa
  8. empusae
  9. empusas
  10. empuse
  11. empusellous

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