comb out

verbs

remove unwanted elements
"The company weeded out the incompetent people"; "The new law weeds out the old inequities"
comb out, weed out
is derived from
comb-out
smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
"comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool"
comb, comb out, disentangle
is derived from
comb-out