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1. Remove unwanted elements
   "The company combed out the incompetent people";
   - weed out
    
2. Smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
   "comb out your hair before dinner";
   - comb, disentangle

1. The act of using a comb to remove tangles from hair
   - teasing
    
2. The act of carefully weeding out unwanted things or people
   "the department got a good comb-out"

Derived forms: combing out, combs out, comb-outs, combed out

Type of: comb, combing, disposal, disposition, get rid of, groom, neaten, remove