collide

(kə-līd')
intr.v., -lid·ed, -lid·ing, -lides.

1. To come together with violent, direct impact.
2. To meet in opposition; conflict: "an unlikely foray by an industrial conglomerate into the terrain where entertainment and merchandising collide" (Laura Bird).

[Latin collīdere : com-, com- + laedere, to strike.]

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There is no basis for the assertion sometimes made that these two words should be restricted to circumstances involving an impact between two moving objects. A vehicle can be said to collide with a tree, a bollard, or any other fixed object as well as with another vehicle, whether moving or not. In factual reporting, however, hit is often a more straightforward choice:

[They] died when their car hit a tree between Penzance and Land's End yesterday—Times, 1990.

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verb

To come together or come up against with force: bump, crash. See conflict/cooperation.

v

Definition: conflict
Antonyms: coalesce

See words rhyming with "collide."

  See crossword solutions for the clue Collide.

Dansk (Danish)
v. intr. - støde sammen

Nederlands (Dutch)
botsen, aanvaren

Français (French)
v. intr. - entrer en collision, se heurter

Deutsch (German)
v. - kollidieren, zusammenprallen, zusammenstoßen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - συγκρούομαι, τρακάρω

Italiano (Italian)
scontrarsi, urtarsi

Português (Portuguese)
v. - colidir, discordar

Русский (Russian)
сталкиваться

Español (Spanish)
v. intr. - chocar, entrar en colisión

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - kollidera, vara oförenlig med

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
碰撞, 抵触, 互撞

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 碰撞, 抵觸, 互撞

한국어 (Korean)
v. intr. - 충돌하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - ぶつかる, 一致しない

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) تصادم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮התנגש‬

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