carpet-v; 3 Senses

Sense Number 1: cover completely; form a cover over; expand over.

Commentary:
NOTE: Use Sense 2 for cases where actual carpet is forming the cover.

Examples:
Flowers carpeted the meadow.
Crowds carpet the street during Mardi Gras.
Developers hope to carpet the neighborhood with shops.

Mappings:
VerbNet: butter-9.9,fill-9.8
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2

Sense Number 2: Cover with a carpet.

Examples:
We carpeted the building instead of using hardwood floors.
It can be difficult to carpet stairs.

Mappings:
VerbNet: butter-9.9,fill-9.8
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: carpet.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3

Sense Number 3: bomb a large area extensively.

Commentary: Is: CARPET BOMB

Examples:
The U.S. decided to carpet bomb Vietnam.
It doesn't take precision to carpet bomb a village.
One should never carpet bomb one's own citizens.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
carpet_bomb 1