WordNet
v. remove unwanted elements; "The company weeded out the incompetent people"; "The new law weeds out the old inequities" [syn: weed out]
smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool" [syn: comb, disentangle]
Usage examples of "comb out".
So Aviendha was sitting on one of the padded benches, allowing Naris to comb out her hair, before Elayne could conclude on a simple gray in fine wool, embroidered in green on the high neck and the sleeves and trimmed with black fox.
Taking a side glance at Dorinda, I could see that even out here she'd made an effort to brush up and comb out.
Then, using a metal louse comb, carefully comb out the hair, section by section, working on a few centimetres of scalp at a time.
Then, without askiiig, I picked up my hairbrush and began to comb out the snarls of his hair.
His hand lifted from her neck, slid the comb out of her hair and then released her.
You can take a comb out of the big jar of Barbicide on the shelf by the sink, and like a .
With a sigh of satisfaction, he began to comb out her hair, which fell to her waist.
He got a comb out and combed his hair--he looked worse with it combed--and put his hat back on.
He pulled the Swedish aluminum comb out of his hip pocket and passed it over.
She took the silver comb out of her hair and pressed it into my hand.