collide

/kəˈlaɪd/

verb 4

Collocations

ADV

nearly

head-on

The two cars collided head-on at the busy intersection yesterday afternoon.

PREP

with

Two cyclists collided with each other at the intersection yesterday afternoon.

verb

To impact directly, especially if violent.

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

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

To come into conflict, or be incompatible.

China collided with the modern world.

To meet; to come into contact.

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

To cause to collide.

verb — crash together with violent impact

verb — be incompatible

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

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.

Wiktionary

The views of the two politicians collide violently.

Tatoeba · #280903

Egoists do not meet, they collide with each other.

Tatoeba · #618808

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

Tatoeba · #918849

i Register

In some senses, collide is marked as poetic. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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