fell
1. the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
• Syn:
hide
• Hypernyms:
animal skin
• Hyponyms:
cowhide, goatskin, rawhide
2. seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges
• Syn:
felled seam
• Hypernyms:
seam
3. the act of felling something (as a tree)
• Hypernyms:
killing, kill, putting to death
1. cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow (Freq. 4)
- strike down a tree
- Lightning struck down the hikers
• Syn:
drop, strike down, cut down
• Derivationally related forms:
feller
• Hypernyms:
cut
• Hyponyms:
chop down, poleax, poleaxe, log, lumber, cut
• Cause:
descend, fall, go down, come down
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- They fell the trees
2. pass away rapidly
- Time flies like an arrow
- Time fleeing beneath him
• Syn:
fly, vanish
• Hypernyms:
elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by,
slip away, go by, slide by, go along
• Verb Group:
vanish, fly, vaporize
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
3. sew a seam by folding the edges
• Hypernyms:
sew, run up, sew together, stitch
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
(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
• Syn:
barbarous, brutal, cruel, roughshod, savage, vicious
• Similar to:
inhumane
• Derivationally related forms:
viciousness (for: vicious), savage (for: savage), savageness (for: savage), cruelness (for: cruel), brutality (for: brutal), barbarousness (for: barbarous)
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