COMBING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of drawing a comb through hair

Example:

his hair needed a comb

Synonyms:

comb; combing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("combing" is a kind of...):

hair care; haircare; hairdressing (care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "combing"):

comb-out; teasing (the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb)

Derivation:

comb (smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb)

comb (straighten with a comb)

-ing form of the verb comb