collide — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To make a direct impact, especially if violent.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

   Examples

   When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.

   Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate.

   More examples (2)

   No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.

   And this friendly was not without its injury worries, with defender Gary Cahill substituted early on after a nasty, needless push by Dries Mertens that caused him to collide with goalkeeper Joe Hart, an incident that left the Chelsea defender requiring a precautionary X-ray at Wembley.

2. To come into conflict, or be incompatible.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

   Examples

   China collided with the modern world.

3. To meet; to come into contact.

   Usage

   • Intransitive
   • Poetic

   Examples

   Out of the doubts that fill my mind / I somehow find, you and I collide

   I knew when we collided / you're the one I have decided who's one of my kind

4. To cause to collide.

   Usage

   • Transitive

Verb

1. be incompatible; be or come into conflict

   Synonyms

   clashjar

   Broader terms

   conflict

   Examples

   These colors clash

2. cause to collide

   Broader terms

   inducestimulatecausehavegetmake

   Examples

   The physicists collided the particles

3. crash together with violent impact

   Synonyms

   clash

   Broader terms

   hitstrikeimpinge onrun intocollide with

   Examples

   The cars collided

   Two meteors clashed