0 present participle of blanket
1 to cover something completely with a thick layer:
Smoke has reduced daytime temperatures through shading, but will also reduce nightime cooling through its blanketing effect.
These imposts, in their blanketing form, are designed ultimately to damage our ability to export.
That kind of draftsmanship of applying one general enforcement blanketing over the whole provisions of this elaborate scheme, is not good enough.
It was covering the valley with thick smoke, blanketing it.
But one of the general lines of criticism against economic regulators is that they are too blanketing in their effect.
Also, the blanketing of large areas of territory makes it impossible for the growing of food many years after conflict has ended.
It is a very wide and rather blanketing sanction.
The blanketing effect of imposing a moratorium is misplaced.