Sample sentences for the GRE study word fell

1. barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious -- ((of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks")

1. fell, drop, strike down, cut down -- (cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers")
2. fly, fell, vanish -- (pass away rapidly; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him")
3. fell -- (sew a seam by folding the edges)

1. hide, fell -- (the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal))
2. fell, felled seam -- (seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges)
3. fell -- (the act of felling something (as a tree))
1. fall, autumn -- (the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973")
2. spill, tumble, fall -- (a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice")
3. Fall -- (the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall")
4. descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope -- (a downward slope or bend)
5. fall -- (a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue")
6. fall, downfall -- (a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg")
7. fall -- (a movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides")
8. capitulation, fall, surrender -- (the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort")
9. twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle -- (the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night")
10. fall, pin -- (when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat)
11. drop, fall -- (a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height")
12. drop, dip, fall, free fall -- (a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall")