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empurple

[em-pur-puhl]

verb (used with object), verb (used without object), em·pur·pled, em·pur·pling.

1.

to color or become purple or purplish.

2.

to darken or redden; flush.

Origin:
1580–90; em-¹ + purple

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empurple
verb
color purple [syn: purple]

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