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Adjective: empurpled  em'pur-puld
  1. Excessively elaborate or showily expressed
    "a writer of empurpled literature";
    - over-embellished, purple
Verb: empurple  em'pur-pul
  1. Colour purple
    - purple, purpurate

See also: rhetorical

Type of: color [US], color in [US], colorise [Brit], colorize [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], colour in [Brit, Cdn], colourise [Brit], colourize [Brit, Cdn]