Meaning

4 senses
  1. (transitive)To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

    filzen

    mat together and make felt-like

  2. (transitive)To cover with, or as if with, felt.

    to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

    cover with felt

  3. (transitive)To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.

  4. (Internet, broadly, transitive)To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).

Examples

6211 sentences
  1. I can imagine how you felt.

    Можу собі уявити, що ти відчував.

    ruМогу представить, как ты себя чувствовал.

    deIch kann mir vorstellen, wie du dich gefühlt hast.

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  2. She felt someone touch her back.

    Вона відчула, як хтось доторкнувся до її спини.

    ruОна почувствовала, как кто-то дотронулся до её спины.

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  3. I felt like I would die.

    У мене було таке відчуття, що я зараз помру.

    ruЯ чувствовал, будто умру.

    deMir war, als ob ich sterben würde.

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  4. Tom felt someone touch his arm.

    Том відчув, як хтось доторкнувся до його руки.

    ruТом почувствовал, как кто-то коснулся его руки.

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  5. Tom felt the need to explain.

    Том відчув потребу пояснити.

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Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
make into felt:

Origin

From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare D

From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

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Forms

felts, felting, felted, felted
Base formfelt · to felt
3rd person singularfelts
Present participlefelting
Past simplefelted
Past participlefelted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfelt
he, she, itfelts

Past simpleLesson

all personsfelted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave felted
he, she, ithas felted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill felt

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedrefelt

Collocations

12 patterns
  • felt like
  • felt a little
  • felt a bit
  • felt sorry for
  • felt the same
  • felt like a
  • felt better better
  • felt compelled to
  • never felt
  • felt that way
  • felt kind of
  • never felt so

See also

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