vellen

Meaning

1. (transitive) to fell, cut down
2. (transitive) to decide, to pronounce

drop

lower

fell

overthrow

skin

abase

demolish

humiliate

mortify

pull down

flay

strip

cut down

chop down

abridge

bring down

couch

cry down

cut up

debase

decrease

degrade

demean

deprave

destroy

diminish

discredit

downsize

draw

draw a line

humble

lessen

let down

look down

make a stroke

pull to pieces

reduce

roll out

ruin

run down

shrink

streak

wreck

write down

appease

assuage

beat

breakdown

butcher

calm

chop

cover

cut off

defeat

depress

dig up

discourage

dishearten

down

enervate

enfeeble

excavate

exhaust

go through

grub

hack

kill

liquidate

overcome

pass through

quiet

quiten

shoot

shoot dead

slaughter

slay

soothe

still

surmount

tackle

take down

tranquilize

use up

vanquish

weaken

win over

descend

go down

sink

cut

skinny

thin

felling

pronounce

declare

topple

Frequency

Hyphenated as

vel‧len

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvɛ.lə(n)/

From Middle Dutch vellen, from Old Dutch *fellen, from Proto-West Germanic *fallijan, from Proto-Germanic *fallijaną. A causative verb to vallen (“to fall”).

New

vel

1. (neuter) a skin, a hide
2. (neuter) a fur, a pelt
3. (neuter) a sheet (e.g. of paper; incorrectly used for a page)
4. (neuter) a membrane, e.g. forming on boiling milk
5. (neuter) a rag, a shred