资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Empurple \Em*pur"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Empurpled}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Empurpling}.] [Pref. em- + purple. Cf. {Impurple}.]
To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to
impurple. ``The deep empurpled ran.'' --Philips.
资料来源 : WordNet®
empurpled
adj : excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of
empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech
embellished with classical quotations"; "an
over-embellished story of the fish that got away" [syn:
{embellished}, {over-embellished}, {purple}]
n : a chromatic color between red and blue [syn: {purple}, {purpleness}]