Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overfell

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-fell
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of overfall

verb

To fell too many trees.

Example Sentences

"In the Punjab increment is reserved against contingencies, a conservative and therefore excellent scheme, since there has been a tendency to overfell and to accept too optimistic rotation figures."
"He was a careful gardener and did not overfell."
"This cautions humanity, that if we overly pursue the economic and utilitarian aims of “usefulness,” overfell forests, abuse resources, and pollute the environment, we will ultimately reach the point of exhausting all resources and degrading the environment into a totally useless one;"

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Inflected Forms

overfells (present, singular) overfelling (participle, present) overfelled (participle, past) overfelled (past)

Questions

What does overfell mean?: simple past and past participle of overfall
Where does overfell come from?: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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