fell

Definitions of fell in various dictionaries:

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

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)

verb - cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow

verb - pass away rapidly

verb - sew a seam by folding the edges

verb - descend in free fall under the influence of gravity

verb - move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way

verb - pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind

verb - come under, be classified or included

verb - fall from clouds

verb - suffer defeat, failure, or ruin

verb - die, as in battle or in a hunt

verb - touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly

verb - be captured

verb - occur at a specified time or place

verb - decrease in size, extent, or range

verb - yield to temptation or sin

verb - lose office or power

verb - to be given by assignment or distribution

verb - move in a specified direction

verb - be due

verb - lose one's chastity

verb - to be given by right or inheritance

verb - come into the possession of

verb - fall to somebody by assignment or lot

verb - be inherited by

verb - slope downward

verb - lose an upright position suddenly

verb - drop oneself to a lower or less erect position

verb - fall or flow in a certain way

verb - assume a disappointed or sad expression

verb - be cast down

verb - come out

verb - be born, used chiefly of lambs

verb - begin vigorously

verb - go as if by falling

verb - come as if by falling

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

To cause to fall by striking; cut or knock down: fell a tree; fell an opponent in boxing.

To kill: was felled by an assassin’s bullet.

To sew or finish (a seam) with the raw edges flattened, turned under, and stitched down.

The timber cut down in one season.

A felled seam.

Of an inhumanly cruel nature; fierce: fell hordes.

Capable of destroying; lethal: a fell blow.

Dire; sinister: by some fell chance.

Scots.

The hide of an animal; a pelt.

A thin membrane directly beneath the hide.

An upland stretch of open country; a moor.

A barren or stony hill.

adv - indifferent to the pain of others [ adj CRUELER, CRUELEST, CRUELLER, CRUELLEST] : CRUELLY

verb - to cause to fall

FELL - A fell (from Old Norse fell, fjall, "mountain") is a high and barren landscape feature, such as a mountain range or moor-covered hills. The term is m...