kæmme
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse kemba, from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɛmə/
Verb
kæmme (imperative kæmme, infinitive at kæmme, present tense kæmmer, past tense kæmmede, perfect tense er/har kæmmet)
- to comb with a comb or a fine-tooth comb
- (by extension) to investigate exhaustively and meticulously to find all instances of something (as though delousing)
- 1962, Børge Outze, Danmark under den anden verdenskrig:
- I løbet af de nærmeste dage ville Stalingrad falde; man skulle bare lige kæmme byen for russere!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2017, Ditte Cederstrand, Det skal vi huske dem, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:
- Hvis hæren vinder osse der, hvor skal en sølle desertør så gøre af sig selv, at Gestapo kæmmer landet bagefter, så de jo i Frankrig.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
- kæmning
- finkæmme
- vandkæmme
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