uncombing

Verb

uncomb (third-person singular simple present uncombs, present participle uncombing, simple past and past participle uncombed)

1. To reverse the effect of combing; to muss.
   • While I eat the popcorn, Loretta uncombs the “set” on her hairpiece.1974, Cosmopolitan - Volume 177, page 98
2. To remove a backcomb from.
   • She was dishevelled in attire; her stocking was down at heel like a stage Hamlet's ; her beautiful thick flaxen hair had burst all restraint, and tumbled about face, and neck, and shoulders with utter recklessness— I notice that hair always seems to uncomb, and unconfine, and ruffle itself in...1860, Chambers's Journal - Volume 33, page 257
3. To comb out; to disentangle.
   • Its oscillating motion rakes the cotton to uncomb it for uniform feeding to conveyorized dryer at right of photo1963, George Worthington, Factory - Volume 121, page 151