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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
comb out
1. remove unwanted elements
- The company weeded out the incompetent people
- The new law weeds out the old inequities
• Syn:
weed out
• Derivationally related forms:
comb-out
• Hypernyms:
get rid of, remove
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
2. smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- comb your hair before dinner
- comb the wool
• Syn:
comb, disentangle
• Derivationally related forms:
disentanglement (for: disentangle), comb-out, comb (for: comb), combing (for: comb)
• Hypernyms:
groom, neaten
• Hyponyms:
slick, slick down, sleek down, tease, fluff
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- They comb out their hair
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