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to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall<a boxer who was often felled in the first round>Synonymsbowl (down or over), down, drop, floor, knock (down or over), levelRelated Wordshit, jab, poke, punch, smite, sock, strike, whack
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to bring down by cutting<the settlers began the daunting task of felling the mighty trees that blanketed the island>Synonymschop (down), cut (down), hew, mowRelated Wordsbulldoze, flatten, level, raze, tear down
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to deprive of life<the quest for a cure for malaria, the disease that felled so many during the digging of the Panama Canal>— see kill 1
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