Definitions
the act of felling something (as a tree)
Word origin
From Middle English fellen, from Old English fellan, fiellan (“to cause to fall, strike down, fell, cut down, throw down, defeat, destroy, kill, tumble, cause to stumble”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallijan, from Proto-Germanic *fallijaną (“to fell, to cause to fall”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂peh₃lH-.
Used in a sentence
“Stand, or I'll fell thee down.”
“Sinclair opened Swansea's account from the spot on 8 minutes after a Ryan Shawcross tackle had felled Wayne Routledge.”
“As southeast Asia's forests were felled, the rhino's habitat shrank and became fragmented.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“cut down trees”4 letters
02“Past form of fall”4 letters
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