comatose, adj. I. unconscious, Med. soporose, insensible, Psychiatry, cataleptic, immobile, Pathol, narcoleptic; narcotic, stuporous, stupefied, drugged, hypnotized.
2. dull, sluggish, phlegmatic, lethargic, lymphatic, torpid, heavy, leaden, lifeless; languid, languorous, listless, spiritless; inactive, inert, supine, stagnant; lazy, otiose, idle, indolent, dronish.
3. insensible, unfeeling, impassible, blunt, callous; hardened, inured; anesthetic, numb, numbed, benumbed, deadened; cool, cold, frigid, icy, frozen; unresponsive, unsympathetic, unreceptive, passive; apathetic, indifferent, unconcerned, detached, withdrawn, oblivious, imperceptive, impercipient; passionless, unemotional, impassive; insensitive, thickskinned, pachydermatous; inanimate, insensate, insentient, exanimate.
4. sleepy, drowsy, somnolent, slumberous, oscitant, soporiferous, soporific; dormant, quiescent, inoperative.
5. unintelligent, slow-witted, dull-witted; stolid, obtuse, bovine, blockish, lumpish; dense, thickheaded, Inf. thick, slow, stupid.
comb, n. 1. fine-tooth comb, serration, serrated edge, toothed strip; hair comb, hairbrush, brush, currycomb; card; rake, harrow.
2. cock's comb, crest, tuft, Zool. caruncle, topknot; growth, Zool. beard, outgrowth, ridge, spine; feather, plume, panache.
-v. 3. arrange, fix, adjust, do, dress, adorn; put in order, smooth, disentangle, untangle, unsnarl, get the knots out; curry, groom, brush, rub, clean.
4. weed out, screen, sort through, sift through; discard, eliminate, get rid of.
5. (all of wool fibers) card, dress, separate.
6. sweep across, move across, extend across, reach across.
7. rake, search thoroughly, go over or through with a fine-tooth comb, look everywhere for.
8. break, break at the crest, roll over, curl over, form whitecaps.
combat, v. I. fight, contend, clash, conflict with, strive; encounter, engage, meet, join, face; battle, give or do battle, duel, joust, tussle, skirmish, scuffle, jostle; war, make war, war against, go to war, go to battle, wage war, take the field, take up arms; brawl, feud, come to blows; pommel, beat, beat into the ground, batter; box, spar, exchange fisticuffs, wrestle, grapple with; slaughter, massacre.
2. contest, confront, rise up against, Obs. militate against, rail against, ride against, struggle against, Archaic. reluct; oppose, defy, contradict, contravene, refute, confound; object to, protest, call in question, march against, make a stand against, dispute, oppugn; resist, repel, repulse, withstand, stand on one's ground; obstruct, thwart, hamper, traverse, interfere with, counteract; check, curb, hinder, impede, inhibit, restrict; restrain, constrain, barricade, bar, block, blockade; prevent, prohibit, forbid, interdict, proscribe, veto, embargo; frustrate, balk, foil, cross, play at cross purposes.
3. assault, attack, beset, assail, harass; raid, storm, charge, rush, tilt, blitz; set upon, pounce upon, bombard, open fire upon, engage in hostilities, SI. let [s.o.] have it, SI. lay into, Archaic, insult.
4. argue, dispute, disagree, controvert, run foul of, cross swords, lock horns, fall foul or afoul of; wrangle, bicker, haggle, SI. hassle; quibble, cavil, nit-pick, pettifog.
-n. 5. fight, battle, duel, bout; contention, clash,