comb out

• Фразовый глагол, означающий удаление спутанных участков или мусора из волос или подобного материала с помощью расчески, или систематический поиск и удаление нежелательных элементов.

A phrasal verb meaning to remove tangles or debris from hair or a similar material using a comb, or to systematically search and remove unwanted elements.

uncountable · transitive · phrasal, separable

1. Remove tangles from hairformal

   To use a comb to untangle or smooth hair.

   Расчесать

   • She carefully combed out the knots from her daughter's hair.
   • He combed out his beard after washing it.
   • It took a while to comb out all the tangles.

   Synonymsdisentanglesmoothuntangle

   Antonymsentanglesnarltangle

2. Remove unwanted elementsinformal

   To systematically remove or eliminate unwanted people or things from a group.

   Устранить нежелательные элементы

   • The manager combed out the inefficient workers from the team.
   • They combed out the errors from the final report.
   • The committee combed out all the irrelevant proposals.

   Synonymsculleliminatefilter outpurgeremoveroot outscreen outweed out

Base verbcomb