blanketting

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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