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Verb
S:
(v)
weed out
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comb out
(remove unwanted elements)
"The company weeded out the incompetent people"; "The new law weeds out the old inequities"
S:
(v)
comb
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comb out
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disentangle
(smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb)
"comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool"