fell

CEFRB2

/fɛl/

verb · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    Moved downward or to a lower position.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.

Examples

  • Her breathing became steady and she fell asleep.

  • The robbers fell upon him from behind the trees.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /fel/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To strike down, kill, destroy.

  2. To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A cutting-down of timber.

More examples

In context

  • Your glasses fell on the floor.

  • one fell swoop

  • Sinclair opened Swansea's account from the spot on 8 minutes after a Ryan Shawcross tackle had felled Wayne Routledge.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

From Middle English fellen, from Old English fellan, fiellan (“to cause to fall, strike down, fell, cut down, throw down, defeat, destroy, kill, tumble, cause to stumble”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallijan, from Proto-Germanic *fallijaną (“to fell, to cause to fall”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂peh₃lH-. Cognate with Dutch vellen (“to fell, cut down”), German fällen (“to fell”), Danish fælde (“to fell”), Norwegian felle (“to fell”).