What is the meaning of comb out?

verb

  • Remove unwanted elements.
    • usage: "The company weeded out the incompetent people"; "The new law weeds out the old inequities"
  • Smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb.
    • usage: "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool"
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