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taken the purple

taken the purple is the past participle of take the purple.

Meaning of take the purple

Verb

take the purple (third-person singular simple present takes the purple, present participle taking the purple, simple past took the purple, past participle taken the purple)

  1. (Roman-Empire, historical) To ascend to the rank of an emperor.

Questions about taken the purple

What is taken the purple the past participle of?
Taken the purple is the past participle of take the purple.

Words near taken the purple in the dictionary

  1. taken the pee
  2. taken the piss
  3. taken the place of
  4. taken the plunge
  5. taken the point
  6. taken the purple
  7. taken the rap
  8. taken the red eye
  9. taken the red pill
  10. taken the register
  11. taken the reins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: taken the purple (page history and authors); take the purple (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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