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# fell

«fell» in Mova's school dictionary: **Dropped down or came down: I fell off my bike** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (past of fall: fall, falls, fell, fallen, falling); verb (fell, fells, felled, felling); noun (a fell, fells — UK)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (past of fall) Dropped down or came down: I fell off my bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fell/#m1)

2) (verb) To cut down a tree, or knock someone down: They felled the old oak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fell/#m2)

3) (noun, UK) A hill or high moor in the north of England: the Lake District fells. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fell/#m3)

4) (adjective, old or poetry) Cruel or terrible: «at one fell swoop» = all at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fell/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories «fell» is often the past of «fall»: someone fell asleep, fell ill, prices fell; in maths «the temperature fell by 5 degrees» means it went down — subtract. Phrases: «fell asleep», «fell over», «fell in love», «fell ill», «at one fell swoop».

### examples

- I fell over and hurt my knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fell/#x1)
- The baby fell asleep in the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fell/#x2)
- The temperature fell from 12 °C to 4 °C, a fall of 8 degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fell/#x3)
- Leaves fell from the trees in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fell/#x4)
- The workers felled three tall trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fell/#x5)
- We walked up the fell to see the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fell/#x6)
- She fell in love with the puppy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fell/#x7)
- This lasted for a while, and then they came upon the fells. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fell/#x8)

### note

Trap: «fell» is the past of «fall» (fall, fell, fallen), but «fell» is also its own verb «to cut down» with past «felled». Do not write «falled». In maths, «fell by» = decrease (subtract); «fell to» = the new value.

### In the corpora

- [An old Scandinavian folk story said lemmings fell from the sky in storms, because they appeared so suddenly in boom years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/13/)
- [When researchers sprayed a harmless mist into single canopy trees, beetles of hundreds of kinds fell out, many never named.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/15/)
- [People once cut tunnels through giant sequoias for cars as a tourist trick, and one tunnel tree fell in a storm in 2017.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees/7/)
- [In London sparrow numbers fell by about two-thirds in a few decades, and scientists still argue why.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/5/)
- [Jaguar «fell three times backward over his own painted tail».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fell» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fell/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.