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fell English

Meaning fell meaning

What does fell mean?
Definitions in simple English

fell Verb

— If you fell something, you make it fall. He felled the tree by chopping it down with an axe.

fell

— verb (= strike down) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow strike down a tree Lightning struck down the hikers — verb sew a seam by folding the edges — noun seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges — noun the act of felling something (as a tree) — noun (= hide) the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal) — verb (= fly) pass away rapidly Time flies like an arrow Time fleeing beneath him — adjective (= barbarous, brutal, cruel, roughshod, savage, vicious) (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

Synonyms fell synonyms

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fell English » English

cut down cut bring down throw down chop down knock down chop hide cruel barbarous vicious throw strike down savage mutilate mountain knock over fly felled seam fall drop brutal vanish upset topple snap off skin roughshod push over overpower overcome hill hew down cut off wing turn over turn tump over tumble trim transfuse top out top tip over tip terrifying terrific terrible stun

Topics fell topics

What do people use fell to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Attack
Work and occupation Occupation Working with wood

Lumbering
Physical actions Posture

Bow
Physical actions Move Manner of movement Move quickly

Move slowly

Conjugation fell conjugation

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fell · verb

Examples fell examples

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Simple sentences

Your glasses fell on the floor.
The apple fell from the tree.
A fork fell off the table.
The old woman fell and could not get up.
I fell down the stairs in my haste.
A drunk man fell down the stairs.
I fell down and hurt my wrist.
He fell short of our expectation.
He slipped and nearly fell.
I fell asleep.
They fell one after another.
She fell into conversation with her neighbors.
She fell in love with her friend's brother.
The robbers fell on him from behind the trees.
A heavy snow fell in Kyoto for the first time in ages.
The temperature fell several degrees.
On my way home, I fell asleep on the train and rode past my station.
I fell asleep while studying at my desk.
The vase fell to the floor and shattered.
The prince fell in love with a woodcutter's daughter.
My pencil fell off the edge of my desk.
The rain fell even harder.
Not a drop of rain fell for a month, so they had to dig a well.
Some apples fell down from the tree.
The tile which fell from the roof broke into pieces.

Movie subtitles

Oh, Minjoo fell and scratched her knee.
In the space of just a generation, in the fifth century AD, the Roman Empire in Western Europe essentially fell apart - the aqueducts dried up, the roads overgrown, the circuses deserted.
From the Earth whence forth ye fell!
Once I baptized Nagasaki the others just fell into place.
If you lived on a planet with twice the gravity of Earth, there'd be a lot more pull on your body and you'd come crashing down twice as hard if you fell.
So she just fell down and ended up that way?
She fell from there, so what do you think has happened to her?
She definitely fell.
That Mini fell through.
Buckle up. Medics are coming in hot with two cirque performers who just fell 20 feet. Illyana!
He fell off a trapeze?
So, everyone, overall there were some nice efforts, but, uh, some of you, I'm sad to say, fell short.
I don't know what it is, but I fell for you the minute I saw you.
Your lot still trying to figure out if he fell, or was pushed?
I fell in love with the white city of Algiers that embraces the Mediterranean shore.
Grace, I fell for you when I was with another girl. Okay?
We fell right into their stupid mousetrap.
My friends who were wounded and fell in battle. all the people that I've lost. there's no way I'll ever forget them!
I fell in love with him.
When I dropped to the ground, I fell softly on moss, thorns shunned me as well as sharp stones.
When I stood before her, like the first time, at once I fell in despair.
He who was the first to call for an uprising, fell at the hands of a butcher.
Night fell, a night fraught with anxiety.
Yes. I was reading and I fell asleep.
Why, it fell hair to a fortune.
You wouldn't know news if you fell into a mess of it.
Yet a princess fell in love with him.
There was a big bang and something fell. It hit you on the head.
Medics are coming in hot with two cirque performers who just fell 20 feet.
Oh. I fell asleep.
On Sunday, the next day, Mr. Lepic's election fell on the same day as the village fair.
Old Jacob Braaten could not keep a farmhand and the farm fell more and more into disrepair.
I even fell asleep and he kept right on driving.
He fell down!
HE SCREAMED AND FELL IN THE WATER.
I was waiting up for you. I guess I fell asleep.
I fell in love last night.
He was cycling and he fell off.

News and current affairs

In recent days, Italy's government fell after losing a parliamentary vote on the country's troop deployment in Afghanistan, while Britain and Denmark announced that they are to begin withdrawing their troops from Iraq.
More rockets and missiles fell on northern Israel in 33 days than hit Britain during all of World War II.
That position lasted until 1970, when the US share of global GDP fell to its pre-war level of one-quarter.
For example, federal spending relative to GDP fell by five percentage points from the mid-1980's to the late 1990's in the US, and by an even larger margin in recent decades in Canada - that is, through periods of strong economic growth.
The US embraced the Shah of Iran by sending massive armaments, which fell into the hands of Iran's Revolutionary Government after 1979.
The net saving rate fell to near zero.
By contrast, employment in middle-skill, white-collar, and blue-collar occupations fell, particularly in manufacturing.
The eastern part of the region fell under Chinese rule, and was renamed Xinjiang, or New Frontier.
The American dollar soared, the Japanese yen went into orbit, the euro fell to earth, and the British pound crashed, leaving a giant crater.
The gap between the cost of carbon-free and carbon-emitting technology fell, and the taxes designed to mitigate emissions became more effective.
In Sydney, home prices actually fell in the second quarter.
Oil prices gradually fell, and the stock market began its long climb towards its peak in 2000.
Output fell and unemployment increased dramatically.
This stubbornness made matters worse when things finally fell apart.
In other words, if your trust in the market and in the way it is regulated fell sharply, you were less likely to deposit money in banks or invest in stocks.
One by one, Western governments fell in line behind the renminbi, despite its practical limitations.
These assumptions turned out to be wrong, as export prices fell steadily over four decades.
But the expansion came to a shuddering halt in 2008, the first year in decades in which aggregate financial assets fell, and there is still little sign of a sustained recovery.
It fell on hard times in recent decades and is only beginning to get its act together under new leadership.
The employment-to-population ratio in the US remains flat - mired at the very low levels to which it fell during the recession.
Workers' wages, adjusted for inflation, fell in 2007, continuing a trend throughout this decade.
Even the agreement to allow women and children to leave blockaded areas of the city of Homs - an anti-Assad stronghold - fell far short of international mediators' vision (and even this achievement seems to be in doubt).
As our team maneuvered the ball down the field, politics fell away.

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