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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024fell1 /fɛl/USA pronunciation v. - pt. of fall.
fell2 /fɛl/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object]- to knock, strike, shoot, or cut down;
cause to fall:to fell a tree.
fell3 /fɛl/USA pronunciation adj. - fierce;
cruel;
deadly:a fell disease.
Idioms- Idioms at or in one fell swoop, all at once or all together, as if by a single blow:The tornado leveled the houses in one fell swoop.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024fell1 (fel),USA pronunciation v. - pt. of fall.
fell2 (fel),USA pronunciation v.t. - Clothingto knock, strike, shoot, or cut down;
cause to fall:to fell a moose; to fell a tree. - Clothing[Sewing.]to finish (a seam) by sewing the edge down flat.
n. - [Lumbering.]the amount of timber cut down in one season.
- Clothing[Sewing.]a seam finished by felling.
- bef. 900; Middle English fellen, Old English fellan, causative of feallan to fall; cognate with Gothic falljan to cause to fall
- fierce;
cruel;
dreadful;
savage. - destructive;
deadly:fell poison; fell disease. - Idioms at or in one fell swoop. See swoop (def. 5).
- Old French, nominative of felon wicked. See felon
- Middle English fel 1250–1300
- the skin or hide of an animal;
pelt.
- bef. 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch vel, German Fell, Old Norse -fjall (in berfjall bear-skin), Gothic -fill (in thrutsfill scab-skin, leprosy); akin to Latin pellis skin, hide
- Scottish Termsan upland pasture, moor, or thicket;
a highland plateau.
- Old Norse fell, fjall hill, mountain, akin to German Felsen rock, cliff
- Middle English 1300–50
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