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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
  • 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
  • A fellow treats himself and his true love to dinner, a bottle and a night at the bug house at the end of another week of hard work and dutiful child-rearing, comes home happy and at peace, and what does he find?
  • The old man fell against the bucket.
  • The one are fellows called devilish good -- the other, fellows called devilish gentleman like. Godolphin, Complete
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