fell
/fɛl/ verb A2- To make something fall, especially a tree.
- To strike down; to kill; to destroy.
- To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance or pleat.
He/she/it fells · Past felled · Past participle felled · -ing form felling
Verb forms
- Base form
- fell
- He/she/it
- fells
- Past
- felled
- Past participle
- felled
- -ing form
- felling
From the library
In spite of the swaying of the house and the wailing of the wind, Dorothy soon closed her eyes and fell fast asleep.
As for the Scarecrow, having no brains, he walked straight ahead, and so stepped into the holes and fell at full length on the hard bricks.
“Fell into the sea?”
Once Toto got too near the open trap door, and fell in; and at first the little girl thought she had lost him.
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