empurple

present singular third person empurples · participle present empurpling · participle past empurpled · past empurpled

1. To make purple.

   Some [wines] deep empurpled as the Hyacine, Some as the rubine, laughing sweetly red, Şome like fair emerauds, not yet well ripened

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

2. To enrage or anger, referring to making the face purple or red with blood.
3. Of writing, to make overly flowery or showy; to embellish unduly.