The meaning of FELL is skin, hide, pelt. How to use fell in a sentence.

Idiom at/in one fell swoop (Definition of fell from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Fell is the past tense of fall. If trees are felled, they are cut down. If you fell someone, you knock them down, for example in a fight. ...a blow on the forehead which felled him to the ground. [VERB noun] …

1. to cut or knock down: to fell a tree; to fell an opponent. 2. (Crafts) needlework to fold under and sew flat (the edges of a seam)

5 days ago · fell (third-person singular simple present fells, present participle felling, simple past and past participle felled) (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree. quotations

to exhibit great eagerness, esp. in pursuit of one's own advantage: The candidate fell over backward in support of the issues that would win votes. Idioms fall or come short.

1. a. To cause to fall by striking; cut or knock down: fell a tree; fell an opponent in boxing. b. To kill: was felled by an assassin's bullet. 2. To sew or finish (a seam) with the raw edges flattened, turned …

FELL definition: simple past tense of fall. See examples of fell used in a sentence.

The word fell wears many hats in addition to being the past tense of fall. As a noun, a fell can be a stitching on the hem of a piece of clothing like pants, or an animal skin that has the fur intact.

Their father was felled [= killed] by a heart attack at age 55. The court has dismissed all of the charges against him in one fell swoop.