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- [fel]
- /fɛl/
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- [fel]
- /fɛl/
Definitions of fell word
- verb fell simple past tense of fall. 1
- verb with object fell to fell (a tree, animal, etc.). 1
- noun fell an act or instance of falling or dropping from a higher to a lower place or position. 1
- noun fell that which falls or drops: a heavy fall of rain. 1
- noun fell the season of the year that comes after summer and before winter; autumn. 1
- noun fell a becoming less; a lowering or decline; a sinking to a lower level: the fall of the Roman Empire. 1
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Origin of fell
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English fellen, Old English fellan, causative of feallan to fall; cognate with Gothic falljan to cause to fall
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Parts of speech for Fell
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
fell popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
fell usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for fell
verb fell
- shoot — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
- tumble — to fall helplessly down, end over end, as by losing one's footing, support, or equilibrium; plunge headlong: to tumble down the stairs.
- drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- flatten — to make flat.
- slash — to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
noun fell
- hillside — a township in NE New Jersey.
- dermis — the layer of skin just below the epidermis
- hill — the small hill in Washington, D.C., on which the Capitol stands.
- hackle — one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers.
- pelt — to attack or assail with repeated blows or with missiles.
adjective fell
- wreckful — causing wreckage.
- wrackful — ruinous.
- feller — Robert William Andrew ("Bob"; "Bullet Bob") 1918–2010, U.S. baseball player.
- sanguinary — full of or characterized by bloodshed; bloody: a sanguinary struggle.
- extirpative — Of, relating to, or pertaining to an extirpation.
Antonyms for fell
verb fell
- unite — to join, combine, or incorporate so as to form a single whole or unit.
- construct — to draw (a line, angle, or figure) so that certain requirements are satisfied
- combine — If you combine two or more things or if they combine, they exist together.
- aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
- assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
Top questions with fell
- the man who fell to earth?
- the boy who fell?
- how he fell in love?