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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
blanket .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective covered with (or as if with) a blanket
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Examples
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Images range from a hulking mountain blanketed with snow to an airy meadow divided by a tree-lined road.
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Images range from a hulking mountain blanketed with snow to an airy meadow divided by a tree-lined road.
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The plane was over the Boualapha District, Khammouan Province, when it crashed into a mountain blanketed by heavy fog.
Mancini, Richard M. 1990
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Barack Obama is "arrogant," "dishonest," and "radical," Fox News 'Sean Hannity announced during a single 10-second chunk of prime-time TV last week -- a casually hateful appraisal that didn't even raise eyebrows, simply because that kind of blanketed disdain for the new president has already become so commonplace.
Eric Boehlert: Unhinged in 30 Days: The Right-Wing Media's Obama Era Implosion 2009
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I constructed a stink-shield by shoving one end of a blanket into the overhead compartment - while effective in blocking at least some of the smell, and offering a small bit of privacy, the ass-on-my-body factor increased, as without my evil glare, passengers feel free to lean up against what they think is some kind of blanketed wall.
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The city had been "blanketed" with surveillance cameras and an additional 400 police officers had been assigned for the summer season.
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Louisiana health officials have ordered air quality testing after a "pungent fuel smell" blanketed "much of coastal Louisiana" and New Orleans.
Think Progress 2010
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Axelrod said no new drilling will proceed until "there is an adequate review of what happened here and what is ordered air quality testing after a" pungent fuel smell "blanketed" much of coastal
Think Progress 2010
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Louisiana health officials have ordered air quality testing after a "pungent fuel smell" blanketed "much of coastal Louisiana" and New Orleans.
Think Progress 2010
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The ads, we're told, are blanketed, meaning everyone will see them on the air, regardless of whether they apply to the state you live in.
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