1. Covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination
   "the carpeted hallway"; "a flower-carpeted hillside"

1. Cover with a carpet
   "carpet the floors of the house"
    
2. Cover completely, as if with a carpet
   "flowers carpeted the meadows"
    
3. Form a carpet-like cover (over)
   "Flowers carpeted the hillside"
    
4. [Brit, informal] Censure severely or angrily
   "The manager called the employee on the carpet for his repeated tardiness";
   - call on the carpet [US, informal], take to task, rebuke, rag [informal], trounce, lecture, reprimand, jaw [informal], dress down [informal], call down [informal], scold, chide, berate, bawl out [informal], chew out [N. Amer, informal], chew up [N. Amer, informal], have words, lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer, informal], wig [Brit, informal]

Type of: cover, criticise [Brit], criticize, damn [informal], knock [informal], pick apart, spread over

Antonym: uncarpeted

Encyclopedia: Carpet