Fell

Quick meaning: Fell is a verb meaning (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.

Meaning

(transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy.
2. (sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
3. A cutting-down of timber.
4. The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
5. (textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
6. (geography) High and barren landscape feature such as a mountain range or mountain terrain above the tree line.
7. (archaic, rare) Skin, hide, pelt.

Example Sentences

Stand, or I'll fell thee down.

"Even in his most temperate moments he is constantly felling people with a hunting-crop."

As southeast Asia's forests were felled, the rhino's habitat shrank and became fragmented.

Sinclair opened Swansea's account from the spot on 8 minutes after a Ryan Shawcross tackle had felled Wayne Routledge.

Word Forms

• fells
• felling
• felled
• feller
• fellest

Synonyms for fell

Depending on context, synonyms include diabolical, sadistic, spiteful, barbarous, bowelless, brutal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include roughshod, hide, drop, cut down, savage, vanish.

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