verb#9,575 by frequency
comb
/kəʊm/
Especially of hair or fur, to groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb
- he/she/it
- combs
- past participle
- combed
Meanings
- 1
Especially of hair or fur, to groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb
Tom combed back his hair.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
Did you comb your hair?
Tatoeba · Hybrid · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibersrare
- 3
To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a combrare
- 4
To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as wavesrare
- 5
To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a targetrare