Comb and Fish

Comb

Comb verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.

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Fish and comb are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fish" instead a verb "Comb".

Nearby Words: combo, combed, comber, combing, combe

Fish verb - To search for something blindly or uncertainly.

Usage example: take a minute to fish for some change to drop in the donation box

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Comb and fish are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Comb" instead a verb "Fish".

Nearby Words: fishy, fished, fishing, fishery, fisher

comb time

fish time

Mission Control: Hadley and Fallon help Merliah out on land by searching for the Celestial Comb and where she can find a Dream Fish.

Source: Western Animation / Barbie in a Mermaid Tale
In Tim Fish's Cavalcade of Boys series, Gordon, the fat old troll with missing teeth and a comb-over, is universally reviled, although he never does anything worse than being a sugar daddy to a series of young hotties.

Source: Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!
In Disney's The Little Mermaid, literal Fish out of Water Ariel, at her first dinner with Eric, uses a dinglehopper (a fork) to comb her hair (based on faulty information provided by Scuttle the seagull).

Source: Fee Fi Faux Pas

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