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Language: Old English
Origin: fellan; related to FALL1

fell

3 verb
     
fell3 [transitive usually passive]
1 to cut down a tree:
More than 100 trees were felled in just over an hour.
2 written to knock someone down with great force:
The goalkeeper was felled by a coin thrown from the crowd.
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