to exhibit great eagerness, esp. in pursuit of one's own advantage: The candidate fell over backward in support of the issues that would win votes. Idioms fall or come short.

Context Explanation

The meaning of FELL is skin, hide, pelt. How to use fell in a sentence. 1. to cut or knock down: to fell a tree; to fell an opponent.

Insight Material

2. (Crafts) needlework to fold under and sew flat (the edges of a seam) Fell is the past tense of fall. If trees are felled, they are cut down. If you fell someone, you knock them down, for example in a fight. ...a blow on the forehead which felled him to the ground.

Final Conclusion

[VERB noun] Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Idiom at/in one fell swoop (Definition of fell from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) fell (third-person singular simple present fells, present participle felling, simple past and past participle felled) (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree. quotations To cause to fall; throw down; cut down; bring to the ground, either by cutting, as with ax or sword, or by striking, as with a club or the fist: as, to fell trees; to fell an ox; to fell an antagonist at fisticuffs. fell meaning, definition, what is fell: the past tense of fall: Learn more.