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

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

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)

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

Feb 21, 2026 · 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

Mar 4, 2024 · "Fell" is the past tense of "fall," indicating an action that has already happened, such as moving downward without control. "Fall" is the present tense, describing the action as it occurs.

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.

Fell definition: To sew or finish (a seam) with the raw edges flattened, turned under, and stitched down.

Definition of fell verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.