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fell
adjective
noun
verb
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
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Word Facts
- Word length
- 4
- Starts with
- F
- Ends with
- L
- Contains
- EL
- Scrabble score
- 7
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
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Definitions
adjective
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
“a barbarous crime”
noun
the act of felling something (as a tree)
noun
seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges
noun
the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
verb
cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
“strike down a tree”
verb
sew a seam by folding the edges
verb
pass away rapidly
“Time flies like an arrow”
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Example Sentences
a barbarous crime
brutal beatings
cruel tortures
Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
a savage slap
strike down a tree
Lightning struck down the hikers
Time flies like an arrow
Time fleeing beneath him
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