BLANKETED Synonyms: 103 Similar and Opposite Words

blanketed

verb

past tense of blanket

as in coated

to form a layer over leaves blanketed all of the land around the house

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as in concealed

to keep secret or shut off from view blanketed the secret memo from the news media

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as in extinguished

to cause to cease burning firefighters managed to blanket the fire with foam

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Recent Examples of blanketed Pompeii is often thought of as an undisturbed time capsule, a once-bustling port that fell silent after Mount Vesuvius erupted and blanketed the ancient Roman city with a thick layer of ash in AD 79. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 20 July 2026 East Rutherford was hit with heavy thunderstorms Saturday, which helped knock down the hazardous smoke from Canadian wildfires that had blanketed the tristate area for days. — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2026 When the desert cools and the sky is blanketed with stars, night-blooming cacti fill the air with their creamy, white floral scent. — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 18 July 2026 Much of the Midwest and East Coast, including major cities like New York, has been blanketed in smoke and dangerously poor air quality for days. — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 The park announced the closure amid hazardous air quality conditions in Pittsburgh as smoke blanketed Pennsylvania and much of the Midwest and Northeast. — Finch Walker, USA Today, 17 July 2026 Large sections of the ceiling were destroyed, blackened and charred, while the floor and tables below, some still with beer bottles on them, were blanketed in ash and debris. — ABC News, 13 July 2026 The lower Hudson River was, for a few hours, blanketed in billowing fabric. — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 30 June 2026 That weekend, a duck’s carcass had been discovered floating in the pool, which had been blanketed in algae. — Jesús Rodríguez, New Yorker, 25 June 2026

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Shag carpet covered original terra-cotta floors, high-gloss paint coated nearly every wooden surface and overgrown weeds crowded the yard.

— R. Daniel Foster, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
Flip the block of cheese so both sides are coated in the oil.

— Kate Williams, AJC.com, 20 July 2026

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Earlier in the multi-day hearing, yet another criminalist testified that investigators found at least 11 air fresheners inside Burke’s Tesla, including one beneath a mass of fly larvae near where Rivas’ remains had been concealed.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2026
For tactics are not tricks concealed, But wisdom sharpened on the field.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026

Definition of concealed

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Stoplights that could have warned the American flight of the impending conflict extinguished after the small plane landed and did not illuminate again until the Delta plane was on final approach, the report said.

— Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
The fires have since been extinguished, according to Kuwait's Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy, with repair work ongoing.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 21 July 2026

Definition of extinguished

Verb

Another criminalist testified earlier in the multi-day probable cause hearing that several Clorox-type wipes covered in brown stains were found in an inner trash bag placed inside the outer bag.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2026
Their heads are covered in waist-length teal veils, and black canvas work aprons cover their gray habits.

— Adora Namigadde, NPR, 23 July 2026

Definition of covered

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Gros Morne National Park combines relatively dark skies with the deepest eclipse in eastern North America, with nearly half of the sun obscured at maximum.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 19 July 2026
Severely nearsighted, Isul wore eyeglasses with thick plastic lenses, which obscured her lovely, small eyes.

— Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026

Definition of obscured

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Trump hadn’t yet declared war on Iran, but the country was roiling with protests, which had been harshly suppressed.

— Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Chinese exploitation of voter data claims Trump argued that the intelligence community suppressed information about China allegedly accessing 220 million voter files and trying to turn American opinion against him in the run-up to the 2020 election.

— Justin Fishel, ABC News, 17 July 2026

Definition of suppressed

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