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blanket
adjective
noun
verb
broad in scope or content
Quick reference
Word Facts
- Word length
- 7
- Starts with
- B
- Ends with
- T
- Contains
- LANKE
- Scrabble score
- 13
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
How it sounds
Pronunciation
ˈblæŋkɪt
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Meaning
Definitions
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)
In context
Example Sentences
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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