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(v)
weed out
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comb out
remove unwanted elements
“The company weeded out the incompetent people”
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“The new law weeds out the old inequities”
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(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”
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“comb the wool”
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