COMBING Synonyms

• the act of brushing your teeth

• the act of brushing your hair

• activity leading to skilled behavior

• the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes

• how something is done or how it happens

• a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period

• a particular kind (as to appearance)

• the popular taste at a given time

• (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma

• editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display

• distinctive and stylish elegance

• a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving

• a slender bristlelike or tubular process

• designate by an identifying term

• make consistent with a certain fashion or style

• make consistent with certain rules of style

• marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits

• receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials)

• (of hair) neat and tidy

• large in amount or extent or degree

• put (things or places) in order

• garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers

• a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments

• a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red

• the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds

• a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments

• a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red

• the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds

• release from entanglement of difficulty

• extricate from entanglement

• free from involvement or entanglement

• separate the tangles of

• smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb

• steal goods; take as spoils

• search thoroughly