groom vs comb

groom and comb both are nouns.

groom and comb both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
groom	Yes	No	Yes	No
comb	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, comb is a hyponym of groom; that is, comb is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than groom:

groom: care for one's external appearance
comb: smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb

Other hyponyms of groom include clean, cleanse, shave, comb out, disentangle, arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress, set, gel, mousse, pomade, clean up, make up, manicure, barber, pedicure, do up, doll up, glam up, pretty up, slick up, smarten up, spruce, spruce up, perfume, scent.

groom (noun)	comb (noun)
a man who has recently been married	the act of drawing a comb through hair
someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses	ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
a man participant in his own marriage ceremony	the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
	a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
	any of several tools for straightening fibers

groom (verb)	comb (verb)
care for one's external appearance	smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
give a neat appearance to	search thoroughly
educate for a future role or function	straighten with a comb

Difference between groom and comb

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