The meaning of FELL is skin, hide, pelt. How to use fell in a sentence. Fell is the past tense of fall.

Understanding the Context

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] Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

Key Insights

Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. FELL meaning: 1. past simple of fall 2. to cut down a tree: 3. to knock someone down, especially in sports: .

Final Thoughts

Learn more. 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) to become lowered or directed downward: Her eyes fell as she began to explain why she had stolen the money. to give in to temptation or sin, esp.

to become unchaste: He had fallen into sin. From Middle English fell, fel, vel, from Old English fel, fell (“hide, skin, pelt”), from Proto-West Germanic *fell, from Proto-Germanic *fellą, from Proto-Indo-European *pél-no- (“skin, animal hide”). Definition of fell verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.