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How to pronounce fell in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms fly, vanish
Type of go by, elapse, glide by, go along, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by
Verb group vaporize, fly, vanish
Type Words
Synonyms hide
Type of animal skin
Has types goatskin, rawhide, cowhide
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Synonyms barbarous, brutal, cruel, roughshod, savage, vicious
Type Words
Synonyms cut down, drop, strike down
Type of cut
Has types log, cut, chop down, poleax, lumber, poleaxe
Derivation feller
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Synonyms felled seam
Type of seam
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Type of stitch, run up, sew, sew together
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Type of putting to death, killing, kill

Examples of fell

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In the last quarter, Monsanto's Roundup and glyphosate business fell 56 percent.
From the stltoday.com
In other words, he said, unemployment fell last month, but for the wrong reason.
From the orlandosentinel.com
It all fell apart in shocking fashion in the second round against Northern Iowa.
From the sacbee.com
Numerous district records fell Saturday, led by Hanford's 200 medley relay team.
From the thenewstribune.com
Erbacon shares fell 12 percent, or 15 rand, to 115 rand, the most since Nov. 26.
From the bloomberg.com
Phil Mickelson, who will also make his first 2011 PGA Tour start, fell to sixth.
From the sacbee.com
Fewer consumers fell behind on their credit-card payments in the fourth quarter.
From the bloomberg.com
Stocks advanced for a sixth day after the reports, and Treasury securities fell.
From the bloomberg.com
Completed takeovers involving Canadian companies fell 20 percent from last year.
From the bloomberg.com
More examples
  • Barbarous: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
  • Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers"
  • Hide: the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
  • Fly: pass away rapidly; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him"
  • Seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges
  • Sew a seam by folding the edges
  • A fell (from Old Norse fell, fjall, "mountain") is a high and barren landscape feature, such as a mountain range or moor-covered hills. The term is most often employed in Fennoscandia, the Isle of Man, parts of Northern England, and Scotland.
  • Fell is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
  • Fell is an American comic book, written by Warren Ellis, illustrated by Ben Templesmith, and published by Image Comics. It began publication in 2005, and has been on hiatus since 2008. It has won two Eisner Awards for Best New Series and Best Continuing Series.