Comb and Go over

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

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Go over and comb are semantically related in activity topic. In some cases you can use "Go over" instead a verb "Comb".

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

Go over verb - To turn out as planned or desired.

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Comb and go over are semantically related in activity topic. Sometimes you can use "Comb" instead a verb "Go over".

This is a character whose job it is to go over everything you do with a fine-toothed comb and an electron microscope, making sure to catalog each of your transgressions, big and small.

Source: The Inquisitor General
So Adam managed to plan over a year in advance for a reveal knowing that the Slender Man fandom would go over every video with a fine tooth comb.

Source: Web Video / Tribe Twelve
In "Space", Young's decision to leave Rush behind in "Justice", as well as order Eli to go over Rush's work with a fine tooth-comb come back to bite him in the ass.

Source: Series / Stargate Universe

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