| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | blan·ket |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  bl ng k t |
| NOUN: | 1. A large piece of woven material used as a covering for warmth, especially on a bed. 2. A layer that covers or encloses: a thick blanket of snow. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Applying to or covering all conditions or instances: a blanket insurance policy. 2. Applying to or covering all members of a class: blanket sanctions against human-rights violators. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: blan·ket·ed, blan·ket·ing, blan·kets
1. To cover with or as if with a blanket: leaves that blanket the ground. 2. To cover so as to inhibit, suppress, or extinguish: blanketed the grease fire with sand. 3. To apply to generally and uniformly without exception: high telephone service charges that blanketed our region. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, an unbleached soft cloth, from blanc, white, of Germanic origin. See bhel-1 in Appendix I.
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