felled

Meaning

of Fell

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fell blighted downed

Examples

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. Thomas Carlyle

The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death. Dylan Thomas

An oak is not felled by a single blow of the axe. Giovanni Boccaccio

An oak is not felled at one blow. Spanish Proverb

The tree is not felled at one blow. Italian Proverb

An oak is not felled at one stroke. Spanish Proverb