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blanket

• (s) broad in scope or content
  • across-the-board pay increases
  • an all-embracing definition
  • blanket sanctions against human-rights violators
  • an invention with broad applications
  • "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner
  • granted him wide powers
  across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, encompassing, broad, extensive, panoptic, wide,

Nouns

• (n) bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
  • he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep
  cover,
• (n) anything that covers
  • there was a blanket of snow
  mantle,
• (n) a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor

Verbs

• (v) cover as if with a blanket
  • snow blanketed the fields
• (v) form a blanket-like cover (over)

Synonyms

cover across-the-board all-embracing all-encompassing all-inclusive encompassing broad extensive panoptic wide mantle

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