comb out

• Verbo frasal que significa remover nós ou sujeira do cabelo ou de material semelhante com um pente, ou procurar e remover sistematicamente elementos indesejados.

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.

incontável · transitivo · phrasal, separável

1. Remove tangles from hairformal

   To use a comb to untangle or smooth hair.

   Desembaraçar o cabelo

   • 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.

   Sinônimosdisentanglesmoothuntangle

   Antônimosentanglesnarltangle

2. Remove unwanted elementsinformal

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

   Eliminar elementos indesejados

   • 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.

   Sinônimosculleliminatefilter outpurgeremoveroot outscreen outweed out

Verbo basecomb