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unpurpling

unpurpling is the present participle and gerund of unpurple.

Meaning of unpurple

Verb

unpurple (third-person singular simple present unpurples, present participle unpurpling, simple past and past participle unpurpled)

  1. To (cause to) cease to be purple.
    • As some clown drunk with fumes of trodden wine,a. 1895, John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley), The Death of Phaethon, in The Collected Poems of Lord De Tabley (1903), page 396

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Questions about unpurpling

What is unpurpling the present participle and gerund of?
Unpurpling is the present participle and gerund of unpurple.

Words near unpurpling in the dictionary

  1. unpurliteness
  2. unpurloined
  3. unpurple
  4. unpurpled
  5. unpurples
  6. unpurpling
  7. unpurpose
  8. unpurposed
  9. unpurposeful
  10. unpurposefully
  11. unpurposefulness

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