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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. remove unwanted elements;
- Example: "The company weeded out the incompetent people"
- Example: "The new law weeds out the old inequities"
[syn: weed out, comb out]

2. smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb;
- Example: "comb your hair before dinner"
- Example: "comb the wool"
[syn: comb, comb out, disentangle]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

comb out
    v 1: remove unwanted elements; "The company weeded out the
         incompetent people"; "The new law weeds out the old
         inequities" [syn: weed out, comb out]
    2: smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair
       before dinner"; "comb the wool" [syn: comb, comb out,
       disentangle]