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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Since its felling, some visitors have been leaving tributes such as stones or small items at the site by Hadrian's Wall.

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Uswayford is already past what Forestry England considers its optimum felling period, with some of the timber decaying on the ground following storm damage.

From BBC

He was involved in the felling of another remote site, Hardknott in the Lake District, which is now being restored to native woodlands with the gradual "removal of commercial areas".

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"Even after logging was banned there were still people illegally felling timber. If they didn't cut down trees, how would they have money? There were also people secretly hunting here to survive. It was only after a long period of building awareness that the consciousness of local farmers changed."

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A powerful typhoon has battered Vietnam's coastal provinces, with strong winds and rains felling trees and tearing the roofs off houses.

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