fellverb
uk/fel/us/fel/fell verb (FALL)
past simple of fall
fell verb (CUT DOWN)
[ T ] to cut down a tree:
A great number of trees were felled to provide space for grazing.
[ T ] to knock someone down, especially in sports:
He eventually felled his opponent with a punch to the head.
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Forestry
- afforestation
- arborist
- brushwood
- cut sth down
- deforestation
- flitch
- forested
- forester
- glade
- grove
- jungle
- logging
- logjam
- old growth
- ranger
- saw sth down
- spinney
- the timberline
- tree-lined
- wooded
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Cutting and stabbing
Hitting against objects accidentally and colliding
Winning, losing & scoring in sport
fellnoun [ C ]
uk/fel/us/fel/UKa hill or other area of high land, especially in northwest England
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Geography: hills & mountains
- alpine
- arête
- Ben
- butte
- cirque
- cliff
- clifftop
- col
- drumlin
- hilltop
- hilly
- hummock
- incline
- knoll
- mountainous
- mountainside
- orographic
- ridge
- sheer
- shelf
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felladjective
uk/fel/us/fel/fell adjective (EVIL)
literary or old use evil or cruel
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Morally wrong and evil
- abhorrent
- amoral
- anomie
- arch-villain
- be rotten to the core idiom
- canker
- darkly
- evil
- evildoer
- go to the bad idiom
- godless
- hanky-panky
- heinous
- scandalous
- seamy
- seedy
- shocking
- shockingly
- wicked
- wickedness
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Violent or aggressive
fell adjective (HILL)
[ before noun ] UK relating to fells (= hills):
We went fell walking last weekend.
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Hiking & orienteering
- bushwalking
- cairn
- caver
- caving
- hike
- hiker
- hiking
- hospitalization
- nature trail
- orienteering
- pedometer
- ramble
- rambler
- rambling
- speleologist
- speleology
- spelunking
- trekking
Idiom(s)
at/in one fell swoop