BLANKETED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blanketed mean? 

• BLANKETED (adjective)
  The adjective BLANKETED has 1 sense:

1. covered with (or as if with) a blanket

  Familiarity information: BLANKETED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLANKETED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with (or as if with) a blanket

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

 Context examples 

The Crater Lake region is blanketed with ash deposits from such volcanoes.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

During cold periods, continental-scale ice sheets have blanketed large tracts of the Northern Hemisphere.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)

A few other topics of general interest were introduced by Mr. Brooke and wet-blanketed by Mrs. Brooke, and conversation languished.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The danger lay in the heavy fog which blanketed the bay, and of which, as a landsman, I had little apprehension.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Multiple worlds in our own solar system, including Titan, are blanketed by clouds and high-altitude hazes.

(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)

The Ghost blanketed it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)