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impurple

impurple is the alternative form 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.

Forms of impurple

third-person singular presentimpurples
present participleimpurpling
past participleimpurpled
pastimpurpled

Origin of impurple

From im- + purple.

Questions about impurple

What is impurple the alternative form of?
Impurple is the alternative form of empurple.

Words near impurple in the dictionary

  1. impurify
  2. impurifying
  3. impuring
  4. impurities
  5. impurity
  6. impurple
  7. impurpled
  8. impurples
  9. impurpling
  10. imput
  11. imputabilities

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