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