Blanketing

2blanketfunction: transitive verb date: 1605 1 : to cover with or as if with a blanket lt;new grass blankets the slopegt;2 a : to cover so as to obscure, interrupt, suppress, or extinguish lt;blanket a fire with foamgt; b : to interrupt the smooth flow of wind to (as a downwind ship) c : to apply or cause to apply to uniformly despite wide separation or diversity among the elements included lt;freight rates that blanket a regiongt; d : to cause to be included lt;automatically blanketed into the insurance programgt;