felling

VERB

chop down

Synonyms

STRONGEST

drop flatten raze shoot shoot down slash tumble

STRONG

cleave cut dash demolish down floor gash ground hack hew level mangle prostrate rive sever split sunder

WEAK

blow down bowl over bring down cause to fall cut down knock down knock over lay low mow down pull down strike down throw down

Antonyms

STRONGEST

raise

STRONG

aid assist build combine construct help join unite

WEAK

erect

Example Sentences

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Mia may be looking for Riley, but what we’re ultimately searching for is much more than “Shelby Oaks” has to offer, its cut-and-paste components never jelling into a clench-worthy, singular horror vision.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

Malinauskas came up with the idea during the preseason, when she realized her team wasn’t jelling.

From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2022

“I’m loving how we’re jelling together and holding each other to that standard.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2022

Their diet consisted of chestnuts, mushrooms, and trout, but they evidently traded the ground root of kudzu as a cooking starch and jelling agent.

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2021

True, he had a dim, persistent impulse to action—or why should he be at the station?—but for the clearest expression of his condition it is necessary to borrow a culinary symbol; he was jelling.

From Gentle Julia by Gilbert, C. Allan