uncomb

To reverse the effect of combing; to muss.

While I eat the popcorn, Loretta uncombs the “set” on her hairpiece.

I decided to uncomb my hair and put on baggy pants and a dirty shirt and apply for food stamps.

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 emotional situations— great tears hung on as long as they could to her beautiful eyelashes, and then dropped, tired out, on to her slate;

She began to uncomb her hair which fell in masses on her shoulders.

To comb out; to disentangle.

Its oscillating motion rakes the cotton to uncomb it for uniform feeding to conveyorized dryer at right of photo

Listen to the roar of the Falls, the overwhelming roar of the people, and try to uncomb some of the many threads that make up the great, unstable river of language.