Synonyms of felling

felling

verb

present participle of fell

1

as in dropping

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

a champion boxer who was shockingly felled in the first round

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dropping
• hitting
• punching
• toppling
• downing
• slapping
• smacking
• poking
• slamming
• leveling
• flooring
• knocking over
• prostrating
• levelling
• knocking down
• whacking
• thumping
• banging
• pounding
• jabbing
• overthrowing
• bashing
• knocking out
• hammering
• smiting
• whaling
• mowing (down)
• swiping
• bludgeoning
• pasting
• thwacking
• bowling (down or over)
• throwing down
• slugging
• socking
• clobbering
• kayoing
• slogging
• belting
• KO'ing
• swatting
• walloping

2

as in mowing

to bring down by cutting

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mowing
• hewing
• demolishing
• flattening
• bulldozing
• razing
• levelling
• cutting (down)
• chopping (down)
• leveling
• tearing down

3

as in killing

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

• killing
• destroying
• slaying
• taking
• dispatching
• slaughtering
• claiming
• murdering
• carrying off
• finishing
• getting
• croaking
• mowing
• whacking
• butchering
• doing for
• wasting
• annihilating
• assassinating
• massacring
• doing in
• smiting
• executing
• snuffing
• cutting down
• neutralizing
• offing
• decimating
• taking out
• doing away with
• terminating
• putting away
• icing
• knocking off
• making away with
• rubbing out
• killing off
• martyring
• bumping off
• scragging
• euthanizing
• blotting out
• putting down
• suiciding
• euthanatizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• restoring
• reviving
• raising
• animating
• resurrecting
• nurturing
• resuscitating

• restoring
• reviving
• raising
• animating
• resurrecting
• nurturing
• resuscitating

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