Past tense of fell
regular verb
The past tense of fell is felled. The past participle is also felled.
Forms of fell
| Base form (V1) | fell /fɛl/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | felled |
| Past participle (V3) | felled |
| Present participle | felling |
| Third person singular | fells |
Felled in a sentence
- Sinclair opened Swansea's account from the spot on 8 minutes after a Ryan Shawcross tackle had felled Wayne Routledge.2011 October 2, Aled Williams, “Swansea 2 - 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport Wales
- As southeast Asia's forests were felled, the rhino's habitat shrank and became fragmented.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 219
- They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.From the entry limb
- "I'm having a funny feeling," he confided, lying rigid on our bed like a felled tree.2007 February 3, Jemima Lewis, “Jemima Lewis: Why British men make good husbands”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media…. From the entry uxoriousness
- They had felled too freely here; the sawmills had taken over-much, leaving next to no young wood.1922, Knut Hamsun, translated by W. Worster, Wanders, London: Gyldendal, page 190. From the entry overmuch
Meaning of fell
- verb To make something fall; especially a tree.
- verb To strike down, kill, destroy.
- verb To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
Questions about the past tense of fell
- What is the past tense of fell?
- The past tense of fell is felled.
- What is the past participle of fell?
- The past participle of fell is felled.
- Is fell a regular or irregular verb?
- Fell is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fell (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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