Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows
or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps
Verb: purpurate
Usage: archaic
  1. Colour purple
    "The setting sun purpurated the sky";
    - purple, empurple

Derived forms: purpurated, purpurates, purpurating

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

Encyclopedia: Purpurate