Difference between Fell and Fall

What is the difference between Fell and Fall?

Fell as a verb is to make something fall; especially to chop down a tree. while Fall as a verb is to move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.

Fell

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree. To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree. To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: That portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down An animal skin, hide A rocky ridge or chain of mountains. (archaic or British English) A wild field or upland moor (archaic or British English)

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: fierce, savage (e.g., one fell swoop) (Scot) Pungent. Having an extremely cruel or irrational trait

Fall

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of moving in a fluid or vacuum under the effect of gravity to a lower position.A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.Autumn.A loss of greatness or status.The action of a batsman being out.A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given directionBlame; punishmentSee falls

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.To come down, to drop or descend.To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.To be brought to the ground.To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.To die, especially in battle.To be allotted to; to arrive through chance or fate.To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc).To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by the adjective that follows; to become prostrated literally or figuratively .To become.To cause something to descend to the ground; especially to cause a tree to descend to the ground by cutting it down.

We hope you now know whether to use Fell or Fall in your sentence.

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