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blanket
adjective
noun
verb
Broad in scope or content
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ˈblæŋkɪt
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adjective
Broad in scope or content
“Across-the-board pay increases”
noun
Bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
“He pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep”
noun
A layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor
noun
Anything that covers
“There was a blanket of snow”
verb
Cover as if with a blanket
“Snow blanketed the fields”
verb
Form a blanket-like cover (over)
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Across-the-board pay increases
An all-embracing definition
Blanket sanctions against human-rights violators
An invention with broad applications
{'source': 'T.G.Winner', 'text': 'a panoptic study of Soviet nationality'}
He pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep
There was a blanket of snow
Snow blanketed the fields
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