fell

fell is a 4-letter English word with 20 senses as adjective, noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Fall. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. past tense. of Fall
2. imp. of Fall.
3. adjective. Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.
4. adjective. Eager; earnest; intent.
5. adjective. Gall; anger; melancholy.
6. noun. A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.
7. noun. A barren or rocky hill.
8. noun. A wild field; a moor.
9. intransitive verb. To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.
10. noun. The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.
11. transitive verb. To sew or hem; -- said of seams.
12. noun. A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.
13. noun. The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
14. noun. the act of felling something (as a tree)
15. noun. seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges
16. noun. the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)

    Synonyms: hide

17. verb. cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow

    "strike down a tree"

    "Lightning struck down the hikers"

    Synonyms: drop

18. verb. sew a seam by folding the edges
19. verb. pass away rapidly

    "Time flies like an arrow"

    "Time fleeing beneath him"

    Synonyms: fly, vanish

20. adjective. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

    "a barbarous crime"

    "brutal beatings"

    Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, roughshod, savage, vicious

Synonyms

hide, drop, fly, vanish, barbarous, brutal, cruel, roughshod, savage, vicious

Common word forms

fells, felled, fellen, feller, fellest, felling, fellable, fellness

Words from these letters

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