I.to make ugly or unsightly, to soil, defile, pollute, disfigure, deform (mostly poet.; cf. deformo).
I. Lit.: Jovis aram sanguine turpari, to be defiled or polluted, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 85; 3, 19, 45 (Trag. v. 125 Vahl.): “sanguine capillos,” Verg. A. 10, 832: “canitiem pulvere,” id. ib. 12, 611: “frontem (cicatrix),” Hor. S. 1, 5, 61; cf.: “candidos umeros (rixae),” id. C. 1, 13, 10: “ora (pallor),” Sil. 7, 631: “te quia rugae Turpant et capitis nives,” Hor. C. 4, 13, 12: “ipsos (scabies),” Tac. H. 5, 4: “Herculea turpatus gymnade vultus,” Stat. Th 4, 106.—