The meaning of FELL is skin, hide, pelt. How to use fell in a sentence.

Idiom at/in one fell swoop (Definition of fell from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Fell is the past tense of fall. If trees are felled, they are cut down. If you fell someone, you knock them down, for example in a fight. ...a blow on the forehead which felled him to the ground. [VERB noun] …

Dec 14, 2025 · fell (third-person singular simple present fells, present participle felling, simple past and past participle felled) (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree. quotations

fell From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English fell1 /fel/ verb the past tense of fall → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus fell • More trees are being felled annually now than ever before. • …

FALL meaning: 1 : to come or go down quickly from a high place or position; 2 : to come or go down suddenly from a standing position often + down or over

1. a. To cause to fall by striking; cut or knock down: fell a tree; fell an opponent in boxing. b. To kill: was felled by an assassin's bullet. 2. To sew or finish (a seam) with the raw edges flattened, turned …

1. to cut or knock down: to fell a tree; to fell an opponent. 2. (Crafts) needlework to fold under and sew flat (the edges of a seam)

FELL definition: simple past tense of fall. See examples of fell used in a sentence.

Fell, eager, striving, keen. ‘T' owd hoss traails mair an' hauf t'draught. He's ower fell be out’—he is too keen for anything. ‘Ma wod! bud he's a fell yan’—a keen and eager one.