fell
cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
How often you will meet it
Rank 332 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 61,252 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.029% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
verb
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow also: drop, strike down, cut down strike down a treeLightning struck down the hikers
- pass away rapidly also: fly, vanish Time flies like an arrowTime fleeing beneath him
- sew a seam by folding the edges
noun
- the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal) also: hide
- seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges also: felled seam
- the act of felling something (as a tree)
adjective
- (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering also: barbarous, brutal, cruel, roughshod, savage, vicious a barbarous crimebrutal beatings
fell in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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It was from the neglect of this cardinal point that the Templars fell.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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It was strange that none of these streams fell into the valley itself.
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know · Hamilton Wright [Editor] Mabie · Chapter 1
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The heavy butt of a Winchester rifle descended on my head and I fell to the ground.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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Or had the intuition that Scaife was other than what he seemed furnished the fertile soil into which the seed fell?
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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To prevent which, I fell to making boxes and bags, in order to separate it, having by me near 150lb. weight.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1