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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. excessively elaborate or showily expressed;
- Example: "a writer of empurpled literature"
- Example: "many purple passages"
- Example: "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
[syn: empurpled, over-embellished, purple]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

empurpled
    adj 1: excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of
           empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-
           embellished story of the fish that got away" [syn:
           empurpled, over-embellished, purple]