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Definition of fell verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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/
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  1. past tense of fall
  2. fell something to cut down a tree
    • Trees were felled and floated downstream.
    • illegally felled timber
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  3. fell somebody (literary) to make somebody fall to the ground
    • He felled his opponent with a single blow.
  4. Word Originverb Old English fellan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vellen and German fällen, also to fall.
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