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🍇 Turning purple ☁️ Becoming purple 🌅 To turn purple
to purpling

to purpling

4.5
To become purple or cause something to turn purple
  • verb
translation icon : púrpurear
  • The grapes will purple as they ripen in the warm sun.

I bruise the way the most secreted, most tender part of a thigh exposed purples, then Blues.

Examples

  • Only very few started to turn a little bit purple, some turn purple.

  • I bruise the way the most secreted, most tender part of a thigh exposed purples, then Blues.

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  • The sky began to purple as the sun set behind the mountains.

  • She watched the flowers purple in the fading light of evening.

Synonyms

to purple
vsto purpling
2 6.8

To change to a color between red and blue

has identical meaning but differs in word form
to empurple
vsto purpling
  • Archaic
9.9

To make something purple

has identical meaning but differs in word form

How Purple

to dye
37 2.2
to stain
113 3.2
to purpling
4.5
to color
  • US
228 1.0
to tint
24 3.6
to tinge
1 4.8

Surface Forms

purpling infinitive
purpled past
purpled past participle
purpling present participle
purples third person singular

Morphology

purpling = purple (transparent) = purple + ing

Present-participial/gerundial form from the verb 'purple' using the regular '-ing' suffix; meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

Purpling is the -ing form of purple, and purple goes back to an old word for a strong dye from a sea snail. That's why to say something is purpling means it is 'turning purple' or causing a purple color.