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词汇 combed
释义 combed
past simple and past participle ofcomb
comb
verb[ T ]
uk /kəʊm/ us /koʊm/

combverb[T] (TIDY HAIR)


B1
to tidy your hair using a comb: 梳,梳理
She combed her hair and put on some lipstick.她梳好头发,抹了点口红。
I've been trying to comb out(= remove using a comb) the knots in her hair.我一直想把她头发上的结梳开。
I combed my hair before I left home.
Comb your hair before you have your photo taken.
She combed her hair with her fingers.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hair care
argan oil
barrette
blow dryer
blow-dry
bobble
bobby pin
coconut oil
coily
crimp
hair gel
hair mousse
hair slide
hair spray
hairdryer
ponytailer
relaxant
relaxed
relaxer
snood
styling

combverb[T] (SEARCH)


to search a place or an area very carefully in order to find something: 认真搜寻;仔细搜查
The police combed the whole area for evidence.警方为了寻找证据搜遍了整个地区。
Investigators combed through the wreckage.调查人员在残骸中认真搜寻。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to search for something
searchI've searched everywhere and can't find my passport.
lookShe was looking in her handbag for a pen.
huntI've hunted all over the place but I can't find that book.
rummageHe rummaged through his pockets, looking for his keys.
ferret outThe inspector general has broad powers to ferret out fraud on the state and local level.
combPolice combed the area for evidence.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Searching
-seeking
beachcomb
beachcomber
beachcombing
body search
bounty hunter
divine
hunter
hunting ground
keep your/an eye out for someone/somethingidiom
leave no stone unturnedidiom
manhunt
needle
scout
scratch
search
seek someone/something out
seeker
shake someone down
troll

Examples of combed


combed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


A combed skein of hair forms the background to the smaller images, which explains the curious criss-crossing in the crook of the swimsuited woman's arm.
The major statutes and court cases have been combed through by legal specialists from a dozen different angles.
The membership fees were purposefully kept low so that the propagandists who combed the shopping streets around the new year met with less resistance.
The feather lice or biting lice found on birds cannot be combed out from their hosts, which is the method suggested for the previously-mentioned insects.
So it should be, for the team combed the planet for the most appropriate materials, many specimens being enormous, at equally enormous cost.
Local officials combed the countryside to inscribe the neediest on the departmental pension rolls.
In most cases they can be combed out from the hair of their hosts with a common tooth-comb.
The author has thoroughly combed the literature and published primary material.
Their emaciated face with deep and sad wrinkles disappears under a huge, never combed beard.
Note that coats were combed at 400 min, before the last two measurements.
His thesis is based primarily (or so it appears) on his reading of secondary and selective primary sources (how systematically combed he never informs the reader).
After stationing troops near the border to block suspected entry and exit points, the mobilised forces combed the area by moving in multiple columns supported by armour and helicopters.
Gish has combed a vast amount of archival material in preparing this solid biography and has incorporated sufficient historical background to contextualize his subject's remarkable life.
The noise components are stronger towards the end of the piece, and the 'combed' noise sounds come to their conclusion approximately fifteen minutes into the piece.
They are in my county beginning to be combed out in order to supply this somewhat illogical quota which each county is asked to contribute.
From the
Hansard archive

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