[
US
/ˈfɛɫ/
]
[ UK /fˈɛl/ ]
[ UK /fˈɛl/ ]
VERB
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cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
Lightning struck down the hikers
strike down a tree - sew a seam by folding the edges
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pass away rapidly
Time flies like an arrow
Time fleeing beneath him
NOUN
- seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges
- the act of felling something (as a tree)
- the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
ADJECTIVE
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(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
a barbarous crime
Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
brutal beatings
vicious kicks
a savage slap
cruel tortures
How To Use fell In A Sentence
- While on the way thither she fell in with a polacre-rigged ship flying the The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
- There is a tradition of magickal practice in my family but sadly it fell into abeyance a couple of generations back.
- Dance the coxswain was the first affected in that way, but after a few moments Mark felt that the poor fellow had been suffering in The Black Bar
- One afternoon, I grew bored and actually fell asleep for a few minutes.
- The experience was a little like being seated next to a cheerful, open-faced fellow on a long airplane flight who begins talking to you - and then never, ever, ever stops, not even when he has his Salisbury steak dinner in his mouth.
- The church was dedicated to St Anthony of Egypt, patron saint of swineherds and of charcoal burners, a trade carried out on the fell for many years in the past.
- You come along with me and I'll introduce you (he's not what you call a refined sort of feller, yer know, 'he explained forbearingly,' but still we've always been friends in a way); you can't stop? The Giant's Robe
- The old man fell against the bucket.
- The one are fellows called devilish good -- the other, fellows called devilish gentleman like. Godolphin, Complete
- The ceiling he had just plastered fell in and knocked him off his ladder.