Comb and Watch

Comb

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

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

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

Watch

Watch verb - To keep one's eyes on.

Comb and watch are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Comb" instead a verb "Watch".

Nearby Words: watchful, watched, watcher, watching

Common collocations

time comb time watch time

Both words in one sentence

  • From the Something Awful review of the movie The House That Screamed: "I'm not saying I disliked the film, I'm just saying that I'd rather rip all of my teeth out with rusty pliers, make them into a comb, and use the comb made of my own teeth to scrape all of my skin off than watch it again."
  • Jingo gently winds up the tendency of shampoos to use "herbs" when the Watch investigates Snowy Slopes, the Man With the Steel-Toothed Comb, who has tried virtually every hair care product available in Ankh-Morpork to treat his horrendous dandruff, mostly on the virtue that they have herbs.
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