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[ US /ˈfɛɫ/ ]
[ UK /fˈɛl/ ]
VERB
  1. cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
    Lightning struck down the hikers
    strike down a tree
  2. sew a seam by folding the edges
  3. pass away rapidly
    Time flies like an arrow
    Time fleeing beneath him
NOUN
  1. seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges
  2. the act of felling something (as a tree)
  3. the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
ADJECTIVE
  1. (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
  • My fellow countrymen were killing and harming each other in ways that I previously could not have fathomed. Soiya Gecaga: Being the Change That I Wish To See In the World
  • 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 ceiling he had just plastered fell in and knocked him off his ladder.
  • Open, and I was quietly confident that I would have a chance, said Leaney, who was forced to change caddies after his original caddie, Justin Hoyle, fell ill after the first round. USATODAY.com - Leaney's second at U.S. Open earns PGA Tour card
  • Referring to some of the songs of that year, it complained that ‘some fellow gets shot, and his baby and his best friend both die with him, and some cat's crying or ready to die’.
  • Before 'mancipation my mammy and daddy owned by the very same old fellar, Thomas Henry McNeil. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4
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