blanket
/ˈblæŋ.kɪt/ verb C2- To cover with, or as if with, a blanket. · A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
- To traverse or complete thoroughly. · The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
- To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
- To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
- To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
- Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.
He/she/it blankets · Past blanketed · Past participle blanketed · -ing form blanketing
Verb forms
- Base form
- blanket
- He/she/it
- blankets
- Past
- blanketed
- Past participle
- blanketed
- -ing form
- blanketing
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And when the morning came and the mists were all white and cold, he saw the man’s child pick up a wicker pot plastered inside with earth, fill it with lumps of red-hot charcoal, put it under his blanket, and go out to tend the cows in the byre.
All the little wood things--the ferns and the satin leaves and the crackerberries--have gone to sleep, just as if somebody had tucked them away until spring under a blanket of leaves.
When Anne got home that night she stacked all her textbooks away in an old trunk in the attic, locked it, and threw the key into the blanket box.
So sudden and violent was the fit that the unfortunate prisoner was unable to complete the sentence; a violent convulsion shook his whole frame, his eyes started from their sockets, his mouth was drawn on one side, his cheeks became purple, he struggled, foamed, dashed himself about, and uttered the most dreadful cries, which, however, Dantès prevented from being heard by covering his head with the blanket.
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