empurple

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  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
  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.

词形变化

empurples present,singular,third-person empurpling participle,present empurpled participle,past empurpled past

词汇关系

相关词
purple prose

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English em-
English purple
English empurple
From em- + purple.
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