| Main Entry: | blanket |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cover |
Synonyms: |
bury, cloak, cloud, coat, conceal, crown, eclipse, envelop, hide, mask, obscure, overcast, overlay, overspread, suppress, surround |
Antonyms: |
lay bare, uncover |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wrap, hide |
Synonyms: |
blanket, board up, bury, bush up, cache, camouflage, canopy, cap, carpet, cloak, clothe, coat, conceal, cover up, crown, curtain, daub, disguise, do on the sly, dress, eclipse, encase, enclose, enfold, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, hood, house, invest, layer, mantle, mask, obscure, overcast, overlay, overspread, protect, put on, screen, secrete, set on, shade, shield, shroud, stash, superimpose, superpose, surface, veil |
Antonyms: |
lay bare, lay out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| Main Entry: | envelop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | encase, hide |
Synonyms: |
blanket, cage, cloak, conceal, contain, coop, corral, cover, drape, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enfold, engulf, enshroud, enwrap, fence, gird, girdle, guard, hem, immure, invest, obscure, overlay, overspread, pen, protect, roll, sheathe, shield, shroud, shut in, superimpose, surround, swaddle, swathe, veil, wrap, wrap up |
| Notes: | envelop is the verb; envelope is the noun |
Antonyms: |
free, let go, let loose, open, release, uncover, unwrap |
| Main Entry: | fill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | to put in and occupy the whole of |
Synonyms: |
block, blow up, brim over, bulge out, charge, choke, clog, close, congest, cram, crowd, distend, fulfill, furnish, glut, gorge, heap, impregnate, inflate, jam-pack, lade, load, meet, overflow, overspread, pack, pack like sardines, permeate, pervade, plug, puff up, pump up, ram, ram in, replenish, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, shoal, stock, stopper, store, stretch, stuff, supply, swell, take up, top, top off |
Antonyms: |
deplete, drain, empty, exhaust, spend, take, use, void |
| Main Entry: | infest |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flood, overrun |
Synonyms: |
abound, annoy, assail, beset, crawl, crowd, defile, fill, flock, harass, harry, infect, invade, overspread, overwhelm, pack, penetrate, pester, plague, pollute, press, ravage, swarm, teem, throng, worry |
| Main Entry: | invade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attack and encroach |
Synonyms: |
access, assail, assault, breach, burglarize, burst in, crash, descend upon, entrench, fall on, foray, go in, infect, infest, infringe, inroad, interfere, loot, make inroads, maraud, meddle, muscle in, occupy, overrun, overspread, overswarm, penetrate, permeate, pervade, pillage, plunder, raid, ravage, storm, swarm over, trespass, violate |
Antonyms: |
leave alone, surrender, yield |
| Main Entry: | overrun |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | infest, spread over; exceed |
Synonyms: |
beset, choke, deluge, go beyond, inundate, invade, overflow, overgrow, overshoot, overspread, overstep, overwhelm, permeate, ravage, run on, run over, spill, spread like wildfire, surge, surpass, swarm, well over |
Antonyms: |
evacuate, retreat |
| Main Entry: | pervade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | affect strongly; spread through |
Synonyms: |
charge, diffuse, extend, fill, imbue, impregnate, infuse, overspread, penetrate, percolate, permeate, suffuse, transfuse |
| Main Entry: | smear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rub on, spread over |
Synonyms: |
apply, bedaub, besmirch, blur, coat, cover, dab, daub, defile, dirty, discolor, overlay, overspread, patch, plaster, slop, smudge, soil, spatter, spray, sprinkle, stain, sully, taint, tar, tarnish |
| Main Entry: | covered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plentifully bestrewn |
Synonyms: |
bejeweled, carpeted, dotted, dusted over, flowered, flowery, overgrown, overspread, peppered, powdered, scattered with, sown, spangled, spattered, spotted, spread with, sprinkled over, starred, starry with, strewn with, studded |
Antonyms: |
bare, empty, unfurnished |