fell

noun

/fel/

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verb

/fel/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they fell	/fel/ /fel/
he / she / it fells	/felz/ /felz/
past simple felled	/feld/ /feld/
past participle felled	/feld/ /feld/
-ing form felling	/ˈfelɪŋ/ /ˈfelɪŋ/

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past tense of fall
fell something to cut down a tree
- Trees were felled and floated downstream.
- illegally felled timber
Topics The environmentc2
fell somebody (literary) to make somebody fall to the ground
- He felled his opponent with a single blow.

Word Originverb Old English fellan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vellen and German fällen, also to fall.

adjective

/fel/

(literary)Idioms

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very evil or violent
Word Originat/in one fell swoop. Middle English: from Old French fel, nominative of felon ‘wicked (person)’, from medieval Latin fello, fellon-, of unknown origin.

Idioms

at/in one fell swoop

all at the same time; in a single action, especially a sudden or violent one
- If the new law is passed, it will remove press freedom in one fell swoop.

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