comb out

• Démêler ou retirer des nœuds, des saletés ou des débris des cheveux ou d'une matière similaire à l'aide d'un peigne ; ou rechercher systématiquement et éliminer des éléments indésirables.

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.

indénombrable · transitif · phrasal, séparable

1. Remove tangles from hairformal

   To use a comb to untangle or smooth hair.

   démêler les cheveux

   • 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.

   Synonymesdisentanglesmoothuntangle

   Antonymesentanglesnarltangle

2. Remove unwanted elementsinformal

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

   Éliminer les indésirables

   • 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.

   Synonymesculleliminatefilter outpurgeremoveroot outscreen outweed out

Verbe de basecomb