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Also Inflected form of fall

fell

US/fɛl/ very common uk

verb

1.

cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow

  • “strike down a tree”
  • “Lightning struck down the hikers”
2.

pass away rapidly

  • “Time flies like an arrow”
  • “Time fleeing beneath him”
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3.

sew a seam by folding the edges

noun

1.

the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)

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2.

seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges

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3.

the act of felling something (as a tree)

adjective

1.

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

  • “a barbarous crime”
  • “brutal beatings”
  • “cruel tortures”
  • “Stalin”
  • “;”
  • “;”

Origin

From Middle English fell, felle, from Old Norse fell (fjall, fiæl, “mountain range or mountain terrain above the tree line”), from Proto-Germanic *felzą, *fel(e)zaz, *falisaz (compare German Felsen 'boulder, cliff', Middle Low German vels 'hill, mountain'), from Proto-Indo-European *pels-; compare Irish aill (“boulder, cliff”), Ancient Greek πέλλα (pélla, “stone”), Pashto پرښه (parṣ̌a, “rock, rocky ledge”), Sanskrit पाषाण (pāṣāṇa, “stone”). Doublet of fjeld. Cognates includes: Danish fjeld (fjæld), Faroese fjall (fjøll), Icelandic fjall (fell), Norwegian fjell (fjøll, fjødd, fjedd, fjedl, fjill, fill, fil, fel), Swedish fjäll (Old Swedish fiæl).

Phrases

  • Campsie Fells
  • fell runner
  • fell running
  • fell stitch
  • flat-fell seam
  • Goat Fell
  • little strokes fell great oaks
  • Low Fell

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