EMPURPLED

9 letters 16 Scrabble points

Definition of EMPURPLED

verb
  1. To make purple.

  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.

adjective
  1. Made purple, especially having a purple complexion because of rage etc.

    "2004. "Intended as ironic, this remark empurpled the anti-anti-Communists who predominated on the intellectual left." —Christopher Hitchens. "Susan Sontag: Remembering an intellectual heroine." http//www.slate.com/id/2111506"

  2. (of a text) over-embellished or flowery

Source: Wiktionary

Word Details

Letters E M P U R P L E D
Length 9 letters
Scrabble Score 16 points