Usually means: Turned purple in color, appearance.
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  1. purpled: Merriam-Webster
  2. purpled: Vocabulary.com
  3. purpled: Wordnik
  4. purpled: Wiktionary
  5. Purpled, purpled: Dictionary.com
  6. Purpled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Purpled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. purpled: FreeDictionary.org
  9. purpled: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See purple as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (purple)

noun:  A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
noun:  (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
noun:  Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
noun:  (by extension) Imperial power.
noun:  Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
noun:  The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
noun:  (medicine) Purpura.
noun:  Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
noun:  Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).
noun:  A cardinalate.
noun:  (UK, slang) Synonym of snakebite and black.
adjective:  Of a purple hue.
adjective:  (US politics) Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
adjective:  (in Netherlands and Belgium) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
adjective:  Imperial; regal.
adjective:  Blood-red; bloody.
adjective:  (of language) Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
adjective:  (motor racing, of a sector, lap, etc.) Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
verb:  (intransitive) To turn purple in colour.
verb:  (transitive) To dye purple.
verb:  (transitive) To clothe in purple.
noun:  (rare) A surname from Middle English.
noun:  (slang, US) Ellipsis of purple drank. [(slang) A recreational drug based on cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community in the southern United States.]
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