fell

Meaning

Verb

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.

Noun

1. A cutting-down of timber.
2. 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.
3. The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

Noun

1. An animal skin, hide, pelt.
2. Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).

Noun

1. A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
2. A wild field or upland moor.

Adj

1. Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
2. Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent
3. Very large; huge.
4. (obsolete) Eager; earnest; intent.

Adv

Sharply; fiercely.

Noun

Anger; gall; melancholy.

Noun

The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.

Concepts

fell

cut down

bring down

cut

throw down

chop down

knock down

chop

cruel

hide

barbarous

mountain

fall

vicious

drop

strike down

brutal

savage

fly

felled seam

mutilate

throw

knock over

push over

topple

cut off

hew

hill

skin

roughshod

vanish

snap off

down

upset

overcome

overpower

defeat

cut up

level

prune

cause to fall

slough

atrocious

ferocious

heinous

blow down

alp

mount

be overthrown

come down

bulldoze

clear

lop

fleece

marsh

fen

fierce

ruthless

dreadful

keen

piercing

painful

kill

fell wood

lay

pelt

hew down

shatter

curtail

dull

trim

floor

shake down

clutter up

lumber

cut over

beat

bag

bowl over

break

coldcock

dump

log

overthrow

overturn

pour

pour out

push down

spill

tip over

transfuse

tumble

tump over

turn

turn over

canopy

cover

include

roof

set

top

top out

appalling

frightful

ghastly

horrifying

terrible

terrific

terrifying

aviate

blow

flit

rack

wing

block and tackle

jack

animal skin

carve

clip

hackle

hash

saw

sever

shear

slice

strip

hem

tip

dropped

stun

lay low

overwhelm

hack

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɛl/

Etymology

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”).