Usually means: Arranging hair with a tool.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. combing: Merriam-Webster
  2. combing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. combing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Combing, combing: Wordnik
  5. combing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. combing: Wiktionary
  7. Combing, combing: Dictionary.com
  8. combing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Combing (torture), Combing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Combing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. combing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. combing: Rhymezone
  13. Combing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. combing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. combing: FreeDictionary.org
  16. combing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Combing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. combing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. combing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. combing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. combing: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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  1. combing: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (combing)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is combed.
▸ noun:  (in the plural) Individual hairs that drop out when the hair is combed.
▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of coaming [(nautical) On a boat, the vertical side of above-deck structures, such as the coach roof, hatch, and cockpit.]

Similar:
combining, commixtion, combination, combinement, tousling, comportation, collation, combo, commixture, commingling, more...

Opposite:
uncurling, tousling, disheveling, tangling

Phrases:
combing out, combing wool, combing machine, combing wools, beach combing, more...

Adjectives:
wool, careful, thorough, honey, fine, wet, regular, good, daily, hair, horizontal

Colors:
    honey,     caramel,     chestnut,     mahogany,     copper, more...



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Similar:
combining, commixtion, combination, combinement, tousling, comportation, collation, combo, commixture, commingling, more...

Opposite:
uncurling, tousling, disheveling, tangling

Phrases:
combing out, combing wool, combing machine, combing wools, beach combing, combing hair, a combing form meaning far, combing back hair with fingers, combing hair with fingers, combing through, more...

Adjectives:
wool, careful, thorough, honey, fine, wet, regular, good, daily, hair, horizontal

Colors:
    honey,     caramel,     chestnut,     mahogany,     copper, more...



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