Synonyms of felled

felled

verb

past tense of fell

1

as in downed

to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall

a champion boxer who was shockingly felled in the first round

Synonyms & Similar Words

• downed
• dropped
• levelled
• hit
• toppled
• leveled
• smacked
• slapped
• slammed
• prostrated
• floored
• punched
• banged
• knocked over
• pounded
• knocked down
• thumped
• mowed (down)
• poked
• bowled (down or over)
• whacked
• knocked out
• jabbed
• overthrew
• pasted
• hammered
• swiped
• kayoed
• bashed
• clobbered
• socked
• threw down
• slugged
• bludgeoned
• smote
• swatted
• thwacked
• belted
• walloped
• slogged
• whaled
• KO'd

2

as in mowed

to bring down by cutting

the settlers began the daunting task of felling the mighty trees that blanketed the island

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mowed
• demolished
• cut (down)
• chopped (down)
• hewed
• levelled
• flattened
• razed
• bulldozed
• leveled
• tore down

3

as in destroyed

to deprive of life

the quest for a cure for malaria, the disease that felled so many during the digging of the Panama Canal

Synonyms & Similar Words

• destroyed
• killed
• dispatched
• claimed
• took
• slew
• murdered
• slaughtered
• carried off
• croaked
• assassinated
• did in
• finished
• snuffed
• butchered
• did for
• decimated
• wasted
• whacked
• did away with
• neutralized
• made away with
• annihilated
• executed
• massacred
• mowed
• offed
• smote
• got
• cut down
• took out
• terminated
• iced
• martyred
• rubbed out
• put away
• scragged
• knocked off
• euthanized
• killed off
• blotted out
• bumped off
• euthanatized
• put down
• suicided

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• restored
• animated
• revived
• raised
• resurrected
• nurtured
• resuscitated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of felled

Anderson’s account of the shah in the 1970s is a familiar story of an Icarus-like figure felled by his own hubris. —Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025

In reality, what felled her was not just one gangster’s greed but an entire organization’s—the inheritors of Rothstein’s operation—zeroing in on a mom-and-pop, or at least a mom, business, as big enterprises always do. —Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025

He’s played in 17 of 34 games ever since, felled by a torn ACL, a concussion, an ankle injury and a wrist injury that needed surgery. —Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025

Briefly Captain Jared Spurgeon returned to practice after being felled this week by an illness. —John Shipley, Twin Cities, 21 Feb. 2025