Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blanket
Participle: blanketed
Gerund: blanketing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | blanket |
| you | blanket |
| he;she;it | blankets |
| we | blanket |
| you | blanket |
| they | blanket |
Perfect
| I | have blanketed |
| you | have blanketed |
| he;she;it | has blanketed |
| we | have blanketed |
| you | have blanketed |
| they | have blanketed |
Past
| I | blanketed |
| you | blanketed |
| he;she;it | blanketed |
| we | blanketed |
| you | blanketed |
| they | blanketed |
Pluperfect
| I | had blanketed |
| you | had blanketed |
| he;she;it | had blanketed |
| we | had blanketed |
| you | had blanketed |
| they | had blanketed |
Future
| I | will blanket |
| you | will blanket |
| he;she;it | will blanket |
| we | will blanket |
| you | will blanket |
| they | will blanket |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blanketed |
| you | will have blanketed |
| he;she;it | will have blanketed |
| we | will have blanketed |
| you | will have blanketed |
| they | will have blanketed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blanket |
| you | blanket |
| he;she;it | blanket |
| we | blanket |
| you | blanket |
| they | blanket |
Perfect
| I | have blanketed |
| you | have blanketed |
| he;she;it | have blanketed |
| we | have blanketed |
| you | have blanketed |
| they | have blanketed |
Imperfect
| I | blanketed |
| you | blanketed |
| he;she;it | blanketed |
| we | blanketed |
| you | blanketed |
| they | blanketed |
Pluperfect
| I | had blanketed |
| you | had blanketed |
| he;she;it | had blanketed |
| we | had blanketed |
| you | had blanketed |
| they | had blanketed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blanket |
| you | would blanket |
| he;she;it | would blanket |
| we | would blanket |
| you | would blanket |
| they | would blanket |
Perfect
| I | would have blanketed |
| you | would have blanketed |
| he;she;it | would have blanketed |
| we | would have blanketed |
| you | would have blanketed |
| they | would have blanketed |
Imperative
| you | blanket |
| we | Let's blanket |
| you | blanket |
Verbs conjugated like 'blanket'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'blanket'
blanken,
basket,
blacken,
blake,
blank,
blinker,
bracket,
clacket,
flanker,
lancet,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin (compare Old English blanca (“white horse”); see more at blank). Furthermore, the sense "white woollen cloth" is likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“blanket; cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”), Norwegian kvitel (“blanket”).
2. Compare also blunket, plunket. Displaced native Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (whence Modern English whittle (“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).
Sample Sentences
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A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
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[…] / I will preſerue my ſelfe, and am bethought / To take the baſeſt and moſt pooreſt ſhape, / That euer penury in contempt of man, / Brought neare to beaſt, my face ile grime with filth, / Blanket my loynes, elſe all my haire with knots, / And with preſented nakedness outface, / The wind, and perſecution of the skie, / […] [c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:]
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I see the moon go off watch and the darkness begin to blanket the river. [1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 64:]
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The whole world was shut away outside in blood-red glory, as he rocked in his cradle on the immaculate sea, where the warm air blanketted him above the water sheets cold below. [1963, Edwin Samuel, “Sun in My Eyes”, in My Friend Musa and Other Stories, London; New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Abelard-Schuman, →LCCN, page 3:]
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Leaping lightly on his back he led the grateful horse in an easy canter back to the stable where he waited and watched as the stable girl rubbed him down and blanketted him. [1992, Ann C. Fallon, Dead Ends: A James Fleming Mystery, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 127:]
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The noise of the fire silenced the seabirds. Then snow blanketted the fire. Birds sang in the snow, and I awoke. [1994, Harold Brodkey, “Changing Room or What a Profane Friendship Is Like”, in Profane Friendship, San Francisco, Calif.: Mercury House, →ISBN, page 151:]
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The miners slowly walked up the steep crater walls, stopping frequently while clouds of sulfurous gas blanketed the crater in the background. [2015 February 25, Kevin McElvaney, “Inside Indonesia's Ijen Volcano”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016:]
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In another damaging twist, former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, who blanketed television networks after President Joe Biden’s victory to falsely claim he was elected because of fraud, reached a plea deal with Georgia prosecutors. [2023 October 25, Stephen Collinson, “Trump rages as former acolytes turn against him under legal heat”, in CNN, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2023:]
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The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
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Hang him, poore grogran-raſcall, pray thee thinke not of him: I’le ſend for him to my lodging, and haue him blanketted when thou wilt, man. [1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 209:]
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Wee'll haue our men blanket 'hem i' the hall. [1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act V, scene iiii:]