comb out

1. 1.

   remove unwanted elements

   “The company weeded out the incompetent people”

   “The new law weeds out the old inequities”

   Synonymsweed out

   Broaderget rid of
2. 2.

   smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb

   “comb your hair before dinner”

   “comb the wool”

   Synonymscombdisentangle

   Broadergroom

   Narrowerslicktease

Questions about comb out

What does comb out mean?

comb out means "remove unwanted elements". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for comb out?

Close synonyms include weed out, comb, disentangle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is comb out a common word?

comb out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.