Usage examples (39)

• Verb (used with object) : She was slowly combing her fingers through her hair. ,She combed the snarls out of her hair. They combed the cowards from the group....
• Feeling myself more fevered than hungry, I determined on spending the time in combing my hair and washing my face and hands with vinegar.
• There was a good deal of waste in this combing, that is, large clumps of tangled wool called noil were combed out.
• They clip from six to seven pounds of wool, suitable for combing, which is longer than South Down wool, but less fine.