0 past simple and past participle of comb
2 to search a place or an area very carefully in order to find something:
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.
