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We've checked our database and believe the answer is COMB which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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noun

• a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair

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

• any of several tools for straightening fibers

• ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore

• the act of drawing a comb through hair

verb

• straighten with a comb

• search thoroughly

• smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb

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verb

• remove by passing through a filter

95%11Exact Match!
verb

• run slowly and gradually

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