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comb

noun
  1. the act of drawing a comb through hair
    “Their tangled hair definitely needed a comb.”
    combing
  2. the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
    coxcomb
  3. ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
  4. a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge
  5. any of several tools for straightening fibers
verb
  1. to smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
    “comb your hair before dinner”
    comb outdisentangle
  2. to search thoroughly
    “They combed the area for the missing child”
    ransack
  3. to straighten with a comb
    “comb your hair”