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]