Meanings of empurpled face in английском

Ward had been casting solicitous side glances at the empurpled face and the swollen veins.

His was the haggard, empurpled face of the old actor who has taken to drink.

She had seen a strange, scarred, empurpled face, whose colorless lips and hard features had filled her soul with loathing.

Rigidly, at arms-length, he held her, moment after moment, immovable, implacable; and when he read death in her empurpled face, a miraculous thing happened.