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COMBING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of drawing a comb through hair
Example:
his hair needed a comb
Synonyms:
comb; combing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("combing" is a kind of...):
hair care; haircare; hairdressing (care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "combing"):
comb-out; teasing (the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb)
Derivation:
comb (smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb)
comb (straighten with a comb)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb comb
