fell

Adjective

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  • a barbarous crime
    
  • brutal beatings
    
  • cruel tortures
    
  • Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
    
  • a savage slap
    
  • vicious kicks
    

Noun

• the act of felling something (as a tree)

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

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

Verb

• sew a seam by folding the edges

• pass away rapidly
  • Time flies like an arrow
    
  • Time fleeing beneath him
    

• cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
  • strike down a tree
    
  • Lightning struck down the hikers
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  barbarous , brutal , cruel , roughshod , savage , vicious , felled seam , hide , fly , vanish , drop , strike down , cut down