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blanketted

blanketted is the simple past and past participle of blanket.

Meaning of blanket

Verb

blanket (third-person singular simple present blankets, present participle blanketing or blanketting, simple past and past participle blanketed or blanketted)

  1. (attributive, transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
    • A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
  2. (attributive, transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
    • The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
  3. (attributive, transitive) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
    • Hang him, poore grogran-raſcall, pray thee thinke not of him: I’le ſend for him to my lodging, and haue him blanketted when thou wilt, man.1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby...
  4. (attributive, transitive) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
  5. (attributive, transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
  6. (attributive) Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.

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Questions about blanketted

What is blanketted the simple past and past participle of?
Blanketted is the simple past and past participle of blanket.

Words near blanketted in the dictionary

  1. blanketman
  2. blanketmen
  3. blanketry
  4. blankets
  5. blanketsful
  6. blanketted
  7. blanketting
  8. blanketweed
  9. blankety
  10. blankety-blank
  11. blankety-blanks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blanketted (page history and authors); blanket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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