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

That would be Maria (Maria Carrozza), wife of Gino, daughter-in-law of Nancy, felled by an air conditioner 457 days previously. —Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025

This coastal Douglas fir grows in a remnant old-growth stand on the east side of Coos County in Oregon; a state in which most of the largest, oldest trees were felled in the frenzy of logging. —Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025

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