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The phrase "are felled" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of trees being cut down or knocked down.
Example: "In the forest, many trees are felled each year to make way for new developments."
Alternatives: "are cut down" or "are knocked down".
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Most often, though, they are felled by heatstroke or dehydration.
Nearly 1,000 Americans are felled each day by a cardiac arrest.
Eugenides survived second-novel syndrome, and so do most novelists, but some are felled by it.
** Eugenides survived second-novel syndrome, and so do most novelists, but some are felled by it.
Because mature trees that are felled are usually replaced with saplings, Trees Atlanta says, the city's lush canopy is thinning.
Characters are felled by bullets from unseen guns, by shells from unseen mortars, by fists from unseen attackers.
The first is that of selecting the locations for the machinery to haul logs from the points where they are felled to the roadside.
Thirty square miles are felled daily in a burst of habitat destruction that is taking place on a scale and speed almost unimaginable in the West.
In colder regions, trees are felled by ax in winter and conveyed by a sled drawn by oxen, mules, or horses to a frozen river.
Furthermore, when natural forests are felled to generate bioenergy or to replace the farm fields that were diverted to growing biofuels, greenhouse gas emissions go up.
With European politics flirting with meltdown as incumbent leaders are felled, the renewed air of emergency is generating heated language from senior figures, mainly directed at Merkel.
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