noun.a large usually oblong piece of woven fabric used as a bed covering

• a horse blanket
• a blanket of fog

noun.a similar piece of fabric used as a body covering (as for an animal)

• a blanket of gloom

noun.something that resembles a blanket

verb.to cover with or as if with a blanket

• new grass blankets the slope
• blanket a fire with foam

verb.to cover so as to obscure, interrupt, suppress, or extinguish

• freight rates that blanket a region
• automatically blanketed into the program

verb.to interrupt the smooth flow of wind to (something, such as a downwind ship)

• towns blanketed into the district

adjective.effective or applicable in all instances or contingencies

• blanket rules
• Traveller rights across the European Union remain unchanged despite the blanket cancellation of flights and holidays in recent weeks …

adjective.covering all members of a group or class without individual apportionment

• A blanket ban on all private collecting of ivory could result in the confiscation and destruction of many historically important pieces of work.
• Dr. Molefi Kete Asante, chair of African American Studies at Temple University, … remarked: “I do not think that anyone should make any blanket statements about any ethnic or cultural group without citing authoritative sources to substantiate those statements.”