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(verb) color purple |
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Synonyms: empurple, purpurate |
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Related Words: color |
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| 2. |
(verb) become purple |
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Related Words: colour, discolor, discolour |
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| 3. |
(satellite adjective) of a color midway between red and blue |
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Synonyms: purplish, violet |
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(noun) a chromatic color between red and blue |
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Synonyms: empurpled, purpleness |
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Related Words: chromatic color, chromatic colour, mauve, reddish blue, reddish purple, royal purple, spectral color, spectral colour, violet |
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| 5. |
(noun) of imperial status; "he was born to the purple" |
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Related Words: nobility, noblesse |
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| 6. |
(satellite adjective) made purple especially as with suffused blood; "empurpled with rage"; "purple with suppressed anger" |
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Synonyms: empurpled |
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(satellite adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head" |
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Synonyms: imperial, majestic, regal, royal |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: embellished, empurpled, over-embellished |
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