fell

Meaning

1. To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
2. To strike down, kill, destroy.
3. To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.

cut down

cut

felled seam

snap off

push down

cause to fall

hew down

be overthrown

tump over

cut over

alp

fell wood

animal skin

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɛl/

From Middle English fellen, from Old English fellan, fiellan (“to cause to fall, strike down, fell, cut down, throw down, defeat, destroy, kill, tumble, cause to stumble”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallijan, from Proto-Germanic *fallijaną (“to fell, to cause to fall”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂peh₃lH-. Cognate with Dutch vellen (“to fell, cut down”), German fällen (“to fell”), Danish fælde (“to fell”), Norwegian felle (“to fell”).

Cognate with Dutch

vellen

Cognate with German

fällen

Cognate with Dutch

vel

Cognate with German

Fell

Cognate with German

Felsen

Cognate with Dutch

fel

New

fall

1. To be moved downwards.
2. To be moved downwards.
3. To be moved downwards.
4. To be moved downwards.
5. To be moved downwards.
6. (obsolete) To move downwards.
7. (obsolete) To move downwards.
8. To move downwards.
9. To change, often negatively.
10. To change, often negatively.
11. To change, often negatively.
12. To change, often negatively.
13. To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
14. To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
15. (obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
16. (obsolete) To bring forth.
17. (obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
18. To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
19. To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
20. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
21. To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
22. To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
23. To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
24. To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
25. (slang) To visit; to go to a place.