comb out

Definition of Comb Out in English :

1. comb out, weed out

remove unwanted elements

Example Sentences:
'The company weeded out the incompetent people'
'The new law weeds out the old inequities'

2. comb, comb out, disentangle

smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb

Example Sentences:
'comb your hair before dinner'
'comb the wool'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Comb Out

verb (tr, adverb)

to remove (tangles or knots) from (the hair) with a comb

to isolate and remove for a purpose

to survey carefully; examine systematically

noun comb-out

an act of combing out

noun

an act of combing out hair that has been permed or set in rollers

the identification and removal of someone or something

They promised a comb-out of police trapped behind desks.

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