pettinare

(transitive) to comb, dress (hair, fur, etc.)
(broadly, transitive) to comb the hair or fur of
(broadly, transitive) to comb; to card; to tease; to hackle (fabric)
(humorous, transitive) to give a beating; to knock some sense into
(transitive) to criticize harshly; to reprimand; to tell off
(broadly, euphemistic, figuratively, transitive) to fix up or polish a story, typically by distorting a fact or guiding a misleading narrative
(archaic, poetic, transitive) to eat voraciously