From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fell
adj 1: (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" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell,
roughshod, savage, vicious]
n 1: the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
[syn: hide, fell]
2: seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching
the seamed materials to avoid rough edges [syn: fell,
felled seam]
3: the act of felling something (as a tree)
v 1: cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike
down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers" [syn:
fell, drop, strike down, cut down]
2: pass away rapidly; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing
beneath him" [syn: fly, fell, vanish]
3: sew a seam by folding the edges