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  • past tense form of feel.
  • past participle of feel.
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felt

[felt] / fɛlt /






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"He was very upset. He felt that there was no way out. He effectively wasn't leaving the house. He had lost a lost of weight," Andrews said.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

The path felt like a magical forested portal far from coastal Alabama where we lived.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

Dozens of aftershocks have already been felt, the strongest measured at a magnitude of 6.1.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

“It felt like it might get Claude to actually try,” he told me.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

She felt something worse than bad after she’d scanned up and down the menu several times, feeling as if everybody behind her was impatient, even though nobody was yelling at her to move.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The same colors appeared on my son’s palms, as he was most taken with the dynamics of uncapping and recapping the felts.

From Slate Jun. 9, 2017

May 15 is Straw Hat Day, when people used to toss off their winter felts and don spring hats.

From New York Times May 3, 2017

The exterior is cold and raw, but in the rooms the industrial feel is softened with grey felts and fabrics.

From The Guardian Apr. 18, 2016

All his I thinks, I believeds and I felts could sound self-effacing.

From Newsweek Apr. 10, 2015

The floor is partly covered with felts, carpets, and mats; the couches are opposite the door, and the walls of the tent are hung with arms, leathern vessels, household utensils, quarters of meat, &c.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell




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