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Comb out

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Verb
  1. 1
    To remove (something) by combing; to thoroughly comb (something); to thoroughly comb (something) so as to remove something else from it (such as tangles, dirt, or nits). transitive

    "I combed out the tangles in my hair. I combed them all out with that fancy comb that Ashley gave me."

  2. 2
    smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb wordnet
  3. 3
    To winnow; for example, to exempt (someone) from a military draft by filtering them out of the list. figuratively, transitive

    "The government combed out some people from the compulsory action."

  4. 4
    remove unwanted elements wordnet

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