BACKCOMBS Antonyms

• a dense growth of bushes

• an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle

• momentary contact

• conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor

• a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)

• a minor short-term fight

• the act of brushing your teeth

• the act of brushing your hair

• contact with something dangerous or undesirable

• rub with a brush, or as if with a brush

• touch lightly and briefly

• clean with a brush

• sweep across or over

• remove with or as if with a brush

• cover by brushing

• 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

• straighten with a comb

• search thoroughly

• smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb

• make flat or flatter

• become flat or flatter

• lower the pitch of (musical notes)

• having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities

• of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth

• (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected

• of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence

• the act of smoothing

• smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication

• smooth and unconstrained in movement

• lacking obstructions or difficulties

• (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

• make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing

• make (a surface) shine

• free from obstructions

• straighten up or out; make straight

• make straight

• get up from a sitting or slouching position

• put (things or places) in order

• straighten by unrolling

• make straight or straighter

• 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

• very restrained or quiet

• brought from wildness into a domesticated state

• flat and uninspiring

• very docile

• correct by punishment or discipline

• make less strong or intense; soften

• adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

• overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

• make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans

• release from entanglement of difficulty

• become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of