You’re listening to Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for April 13.

Today’s word is fell, spelled f-e-l-l.

fell /fel/ [transitive] verb

to cut down a tree

More than 100 trees were felled in just over an hour.

A great number of trees were felled to provide space for grazing.

I felled a tree.

in one fell swoop idiom

(also at one fell swoop British English)

doing a lot of things at the same time, using only one action SYN in one go

I got all my Christmas shopping done in one fell swoop.

A single company can eliminate 74,000 jobs in one fell swoop.

The court has dismissed all of the charges against him in one fell swoop.

With your word of the day, I’m Mohammad Golpayegani.

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