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comb-out
 
Noun comb-out has 2 senses
  1. comb-out, teasing - the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb
    --1 is a kind of comb, combing
    Derived form: verb comb out2
  2. comb-out - the act of carefully weeding out unwanted things or people; "the department got a good comb-out"
    --2 is a kind of     disposal, disposition
    Derived form: verb comb out1
Verb comb-out has 2 senses
  1. weed out, comb out - remove unwanted elements; "The company weeded out the incompetent people"; "The new law weeds out the old inequities"
    --1 is one way to get rid of, remove
    Derived form: noun comb-out2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  2. comb, comb out, disentangle - smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool"
    --2 is one way to groom, neaten
    Derived form: noun comb-out1
    Sample sentence:
    They comb out their hair
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