carpeted

Verb

carpet (third-person singular simple present carpets, present participle carpeting, simple past and past participle carpeted)

1. (transitive) To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.
   • After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.
   • Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.
3. (UK, transitive) To reprimand.
   • Even Colonel Yakov, so recently carpeted by St Petersburg, was reported to be back in the Pamirs.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 428

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