Synonyms of the word

fell

• v. (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
• v. (transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy.
• v. (sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
• n. A cutting-down of timber.
• n. The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat,…
• n. (textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
• n. An animal skin, hide, pelt.
• n. Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
• n. (archaic outside Britain) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
• n. (archaic outside Britain) A wild field or upland moor.
• adj. Of a strong and cruel nature; eagre and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent; clever.
• adj. (obsolete) Eager; earnest; intent.
• adv. Sharply; fiercely.
• n. Gall; anger; melancholy.
• n. (mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.

barbarous

• adj. (said of language) Not classical or pure.
• adj. uncivilized, uncultured.
• adj. Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.

brutal

• adj. Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel.
• adj. Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
• adj. Harsh; unrelenting.
• adj. Disagreeably precise or penetrating.
• adj. (music, figuratively) In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.

cruel

• adj. Not nice; mean; heartless.
• adj. (slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
• v. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success).
• v. (Australia) To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

drop

• n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
• n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
• n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
• n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
• n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
• n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
• n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
• n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
• n. (American football) A dropped pass.
• n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
• n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
• n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
• n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
• n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
• n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
• n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
• n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
• n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
• n. (architecture) A gutta.
• n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
• n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
• n. A drop press or drop hammer.
• n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
• n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
• v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
• v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
• v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
• v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
• v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
• v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
• v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
• v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
• v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
• v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
• v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
• v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
• v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
• v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
• v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
• v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
• v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
• v. To give birth to.
• v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
• v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

elapse

• v. (intransitive, of time) To pass or move by.

fly

• n. (rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
• n. (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless…
• n. (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other…
• n. Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
• n. (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
• n. (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest…
• n. (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
• n. (obsolete) A parasite.
• n. (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
• v. (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded…
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
• v. (intransitive) To travel very fast.
• v. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
• v. To hunt with a hawk.
• v. (transitive) To display a flag on a flagpole.
• n. (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
• n. An act of flying.
• n. (baseball) A fly ball.
• n. (now historical) A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised flys).
• n. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
• n. A strip of material hiding the zipper, buttons etc. at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants,…
• n. The free edge of a flag.
• n. The horizontal length of a flag.
• n. Butterfly, a form of swimming.
• n. (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
• n. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
• n. (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
• n. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of…
• n. A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the…
• n. In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while…
• n. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
• n. (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
• n. (printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
• n. (printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the…
• n. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
• n. (cotton manufacture) waste cotton.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground…
• adj. (slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
• adj. (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance.
• adj. (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.

hide

• v. (transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
• v. (intransitive) To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.
• n. (countable) The skin of an animal.
• n. (obsolete or derogatory) The human skin.
• n. (uncountable, informal, usually US) One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
• n. (countable) (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals…
• v. To beat with a whip made from hide.
• n. (historical) An English unit of land and tax assessment intended to support one household and notionally…

inhumane

• adj. lacking pity or compassion for misery and suffering; cruel, unkind, not humane.

kill

• v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
• v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
• v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
• v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
• v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
• v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
• v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
• v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
• n. The act of killing.
• n. Specifically, the death blow.
• n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
• n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
• n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
• n. A kiln.

killing

• v. present participle of kill.
• adj. That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.
• adj. Devastatingly attractive.
• adj. That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny.
• n. An instance of someone being killed.
• n. (informal) A large amount of money.

lapse

• n. A temporary failure; a slip.
• n. A decline or fall in standards.
• n. A pause in continuity.
• n. An interval of time between events.
• n. A termination of a right etc, through disuse or neglect.
• n. (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer…
• n. (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator,…
• n. (theology) A fall or apostasy.
• v. (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
• v. (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
• v. To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
• v. (intransitive) To become void.
• v. To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence,…

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

roughshod

• adj. (farriery) Of a horse: having hooves shod with calks or horseshoes that have projecting nails to prevent…
• adj. (by extension) Brutal or domineering.

savage

• adj. Wild; not cultivated.
• adj. Barbaric; not civilized.
• adj. Fierce and ferocious.
• adj. Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
• n. (pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
• n. (figuratively) A defiant person.
• v. To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
• v. (figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
• v. (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make savage.

seam

• n. (sewing) A folded back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more…
• n. A suture.
• n. A thin stratum, especially of coal or mineral.
• n. (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces…
• n. An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
• n. An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
• n. (construction) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
• n. A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
• n. (figuratively) A line of junction; a joint.
• v. To put together with a seam.
• v. To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch,…
• v. To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
• v. To crack open along a seam.
• v. (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
• v. (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) grease; tallow; lard.

sew

• v. (transitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them…
• v. (intransitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them…
• v. (transitive) To enclose by sewing.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To drain the water from.
• v. (nautical) Of a ship, to be grounded.

stitch

• n. A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
• n. An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.
• n. (sports) An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, caused by internal organs pulling…
• n. A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn.
• n. An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
• n. A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.
• n. Hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
• n. A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.
• n. (obsolete) A contortion, or twist.
• n. (colloquial) Any least part of a fabric or dress.
• n. A furrow.
• v. To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of…
• v. To sew, or unite or attach by stitches.
• v. (agriculture) To form land into ridges.
• v. (intransitive) To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
• v. (computing, graphics) To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.

vanish

• v. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
• v. (mathematics) To become equal to zero.
• n. (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from…
• n. A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.

vicious

• adj. Violent, destructive and cruel.
• adj. Savage and aggressive.
• adj. (archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.