Comb
Comb verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.
Strip
Strip verb - To remove clothing from.
Common collocations
| planet | comb planet | strip planet |
Both words in one sentence
- A strip had Garfield finding things in the couch, such as a pencil, some change, a comb, and a fork before finding the remote control.
Source: Lost The TV Remote -
The few hits it managed were tied to the studio's popular TV series 77 Sunset Strip; the soundtrack album sold well, and actor Edd Byrnes (who played the show's Breakout Character Kookie) had a fluke novelty hit with "Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)".
Source: Creator / Warner Bros. Records
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Strip and Comb. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/comb/strip
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