fell

/fel/ Cách viết khác : (fall) /fɔ:l/
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fell

A lumberjack uses an axe to fell a tall pine tree.

Definition

  1. Verb (past tense of "fall"):

    • To move downward, typically rapidly and freely without control, from a higher to a lower level. This is the simple past tense and past participle of the verb "to fall."
    • To decrease in number, amount, intensity, or quality.
    • To be defeated or overthrown.
    • To pass into a specified state, often of sin, error, or ruin.

  2. Verb (transitive):

    • To cut down (a tree).
    • To strike down, knock down, or kill.

  3. Noun:

    • An act of cutting down trees.
    • A hill or stretch of high moorland, especially in northern England.
    • An animal's hide or skin with its hair.

  4. Adjective:

    • Of terrible evil or ferocity; deadly; cruel.
Usage and Examples

  • Verb (past tense of "fall"):

    • She fell from the ladder and broke her arm.
    • Stock prices fell sharply yesterday.
    • The government fell after a vote of no confidence.
    • He fell into despair after the loss.

  • Verb (transitive - to cut down or strike):

    • The lumberjacks will fell the old pine tree tomorrow.
    • The champion felled his opponent with a single punch.

  • Noun (act of cutting trees):

    • The fell of the ancient forest sparked protests.

  • Noun (hill/moorland):

    • They went hiking on the wild, windswept fells of the Lake District.

  • Noun (animal skin):

    • The trapper prepared the beaver fell for tanning.

  • Adjective (cruel, deadly):

    • It was a fell and wicked deed. (literary/archaic)
    • The knight faced a fell opponent in battle.
Advanced Usage
  • "to fell at one blow": to knock down or kill with a single action.
    • The hero felled the giant at one blow.
  • "fell swoop": a single swift action. (Often used in the idiom "in one fell swoop").
    • The new policy solved three major problems in one fell swoop.
Variants and Related Words
  • Feller (noun): a person or machine that fells trees.
  • Felling (noun/gerund): the activity or job of cutting down trees.
    • Tree felling requires a permit.
  • Felon (noun): a person who has committed a felony (a serious crime). (Shares the etymological root related to cruelty or wickedness).
Synonyms
  • Verb (to cut down): cut down, chop down, hew, level.
  • Verb (to strike down): knock down, floor, prostrate, deck.
  • Adjective: cruel, savage, fierce, vicious, deadly, lethal.
Phrasal Verbs / Related Constructions

(Note: As a verb, "fell" itself is not commonly used in phrasal verbs. The following relates to its base form "fall.") - Fall apart: to break into pieces; to become emotionally upset. - Fall for: to fall in love with; to be deceived by. - Fall out: to argue and stop being friendly; to happen. - Fall through: (of a plan) to fail to happen.

Idioms and Fixed Phrases
  • In one fell swoop: doing a lot of things at once, with a single decisive action.
    • The merger eliminated hundreds of jobs in one fell swoop.
  • A fell purpose: (literary) a cruel or ruthless intention.
  • The fell of night: (poetic) the onset or darkness of night.
fell

A lumberjack uses an axe to fell a tall pine tree.

Adjective
  1. (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
  1. the act of felling something (as a tree)
  2. seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges
  3. the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
Verb
  1. sew a seam by folding the edges
  2. pass away rapidly
    • Time flies like an arrow
    • Time fleeing beneath him
  3. cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
    • strike down a tree
    • Lightning struck down the hikers

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