fell
verb/fel/
/fel/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they fell | /fel/ /fel/ |
| he / she / it fells | /felz/ /felz/ |
| past simple felled | /feld/ /feld/ |
| past participle felled | /feld/ /feld/ |
| -ing form felling | /ˈfelɪŋ/ /ˈfelɪŋ/ |
- past tense of fall
- fell something to cut down a tree
- Trees were felled and floated downstream.
- illegally felled timber
- fell somebody (literary) to make somebody fall to the ground
- He felled his opponent with a single blow.
Word Originverb Old English fellan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vellen and German fällen, also to fall.
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