fell

1. 1.

   cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow

   “strike down a tree”

   “Lightning struck down the hikers”

   Synonymsdropstrike downcut down

   Broadercut

   Narrowerchop downpoleaxlogcut
2. 2.

   pass away rapidly

   “Time flies like an arrow”

   “Time fleeing beneath him”

   Synonymsflyvanish

   Broaderelapse
3. 3.

   sew a seam by folding the edges

   Broadersew

1. 1.

   (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

   “a barbarous crime”

   “brutal beatings”

   “cruel tortures”

   “Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks”

   “a savage slap”

   “vicious kicks”

   Synonymsbarbarousbrutalcruelroughshodsavagevicious

   Similarinhumane

Other forms of fell

plural

fells·

past tense

felled·

present participle

felling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fell

What does fell mean?

fell means "the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fell?

fell has 1 syllable: fell. In IPA it is /ˈfɛl/.

What is another word for fell?

Close synonyms include hide, felled seam, drop, strike down, cut down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fell a common word?

fell is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fell?

1 word rhymes with fell. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.