blanket

Adjective

• 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
    

Noun

• a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor

• anything that covers
  • there was a blanket of snow
    

• bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
  • he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep
    

Verb

• form a blanket-like cover (over)

• cover as if with a blanket
  • snow blanketed the fields
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  mantle , cover