empurple

American  

[em-pur-puhl] / ɛmˈpɜr pəl /

verb (used with or without object)

empurpled, empurpling

1. to color or become purple or purplish.

2. to darken or redden; flush.

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Etymology

Origin of empurple

First recorded in 1580–90; em- ¹ + purple

Example Sentences

It seems obvious now, but Updike was one of the first to show that you don’t have to write down about sports or empurple them, either.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2010

But the moments vent by, and still no hideous stain rose to empurple the green translucent plain of liquid light.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram

In winter, pheasants crouch under the brushwood or splutter through the trees; in summer the rhododendrons scent and empurple the woodland rides.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

"Did not some song empurple Nisus' hair, "And bid young Pelops' ivory shoulder glow?

From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Williams, Theodore C.

Now the winds played with its leaves and tendrils; and the warmth of the sun began to empurple its hard green grapes, and to prepare within them a sweet and delicious juice.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 356, February 14, 1829 by Various