Definition of "empurpled" [empurpled]

• Simple past tense and past participle of empurple. (verb)
• Made purple, especially having a purple complexion because of rage etc. (adjective)
• Over-embellished or flowery (adjective)

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• ""Turning 50 is a cause for sombre reflection, not celebration," opined Norris and, as a flurry of firemen attempted to free her empurpled cranium, shame descended once more."
• "You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose?"
• "Ere I hid my head she was standing in her cavern halls, glowing coldly westward—her feet were blackness: her robes, empurpled, flowed mistily from shoulder down in formless folds of folds; her head, pine-crowned, was set with jeweled stars."