blanket

About 6.85 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.

   The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.

2. noun A covering layer of anything.

   The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.

3. noun A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.

   A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.

4. noun A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
5. adjective General; covering or encompassing everything.
6. verb To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.

   A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.

7. verb To traverse or complete thoroughly.

   The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.

8. verb To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

Similar words

cover mantle wide broad all-inclusive comprehensive across-the-board all-embracing all-encompassing panoptic

Often followed by

and of over on to or in around that

Word family

blanketed blanketing blanketlike blankets