combing
verb
Meaning
- (especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb.
- To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- The act by which something is combed.
- (in the plural) Individual hairs that drop out when the hair is combed.
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