comb
noun
a toothed strip of plastic, hard rubber, bone, wood, or metal, used for arranging the hair, untangling it, or holding it in place.
combed
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past participleof comb.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof comb.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
combnouna toothed strip of plastic, hard rubber, bone, wood, or metal, used for arranging the hair, untangling it, or holding it in place.
Example Sentences
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Rescuers combed through debris for survivors Saturday after a powerful earthquake struck off Flores island in eastern Indonesia, killing at least 20 people and sending thousands fleeing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
We've combed through it all, so you don't have to, and found six of the most interesting bits among the sea of numbers.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
The May PCE report isn’t likely to be taken for granted by the market; it will be combed carefully and methodically for signs to either add to or dial back rate-hike bets.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
They combed through CulturaX, one of the largest open-source Chinese-language data sets that AI labs use to train models—about 189 million documents scraped from the Chinese-language internet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
I shampooed and brushed, shampooed and combed until my scalp throbbed.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
