Word

comb out, v.

smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
<verb.body> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

comb comb out disentangle

sample sentences

"comb your hair before dinner"
"comb the wool"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
They %s their hair

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
They %s their hair

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
They %s their hair

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

combing comb comb comb

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

disentanglement

semantic pointers

hypernym

hyponym

slick, slick down, sleek down tease, fluff

remove unwanted elements
<verb.possession> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

comb out weed out

sample sentences

"The company weeded out the incompetent people"
"The new law weeds out the old inequities"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

get rid of, remove