comb out
v 1: remove unwanted elements; "The company weeded out the
incompetent people"; "The new law weeds out the old
inequities" [syn: {weed out}, {comb out}]
2: smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair
before dinner"; "comb the wool" [syn: {comb}, {comb out},
{disentangle}]