felled
adjective
ˈfeld 
: having been cut or knocked down
felled trees/timber
Word History
First Known Use
1664, in the meaning defined above
felled
verb
1
as in dropped
to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall a champion boxer who was shockingly felled in the first round Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- dropped
- hit
- downed
- toppled
- leveled
- punched
- smacked
- slapped
- prostrated
- slammed
- floored
- levelled
- knocked over
- poked
- banged
- pounded
- knocked down
- thumped
- whacked
- jabbed
- knocked out
- kayoed
- overthrew
- mowed (down)
- pasted
- bowled (down or over)
- swiped
- bashed
- hammered
- clobbered
- thwacked
- socked
- slugged
- threw down
- bludgeoned
- swatted
- smote
- belted
- walloped
- slogged
- whaled
- KO'd
2
as in mowed
to bring down by cutting the settlers began the daunting task of felling the mighty trees that blanketed the island Synonyms & Similar Words
- mowed
- demolished
- hewed
- flattened
- razed
- bulldozed
- levelled
- leveled
- chopped (down)
- cut (down)
- tore down
3
as in killed
to deprive of life the quest for a cure for malaria, the disease that felled so many during the digging of the Panama Canal Synonyms & Similar Words
- killed
- destroyed
- dispatched
- claimed
- took
- murdered
- slew
- slaughtered
- croaked
- carried off
- assassinated
- snuffed
- finished
- butchered
- decimated
- whacked
- did in
- annihilated
- offed
- wasted
- neutralized
- did for
- executed
- massacred
- mowed
- got
- smote
- made away with
- scragged
- terminated
- iced
- rubbed out
- took out
- martyred
- cut down
- put away
- bumped off
- knocked off
- did away with
- euthanized
- killed off
- suicided
- blotted out
- euthanatized
- put down
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- restored
- revived
- resurrected
- raised
- animated
- nurtured
- resuscitated