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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