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collide
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN car ▪ Investigations are continuing to discover how the two cars came to collide at the Great Stainton crossroads on the narrow road. ▪ That car collided with the vehicle in which Waltrick was riding. ▪ Nine cars and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To impact directly, especially if violent
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. crash together with violent impact; "The cars collided"; "Two meteors clashed" [syn: clash ] be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash" [syn: clash , jar ] cause to collide; "The physicists collided the particles"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collide \Col*lide"\, v. t. To strike or dash against. [Obs.] Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. --Sir T. Browne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Latin collidere "strike together," from com- "together" (see com- ) + laedere "to strike, injure by striking," which is of unknown origin. For Latin vowel change, see acquisition . Related: Collided ; colliding .
Usage examples of collide.
Earl a cushion, or a stool for his feet, Martin escaped from the saloon, almost colliding in the doorway with Abney, who was on the point of ushering in two more visitors.
It turned as he watched, colliding with the afterpart of the ship as it rotated in the water like a small berg.
Blinded by the raging blizzard, the Sons of Annam bellowed in surprise and began to stumble about, filling the air with crashes and grunts as they collided with each other.
Once that state has been achieved, they are collided with heavy nuclei, resulting in a spray of elementary particles that includes antiprotons, antielectrons, and antineutrons.
Frightened, they begin to lumber away, colliding with one another and the Arkies and the walls.
She knew the whole astrobiology team was in a race to study every facet of the colliding worlds before the collision destroyed the planetoid and utterly transformed Martin as well.
Two large vessels, cruisers or battleships, had apparently collided in the night.
Members of the Bofors crew, each holding a glass of wine, came clattering up the steps and collided with them.
He groped for the steel lip and tentatively snaked both hands inside until they collided with the topmost mound of cinerous residue.
The only casualties had been, unfortunately, Marco Galliani and his bronze dragon, Duluth, who had collided with a sled.
As these endlessly bumped and collided, they fractured or split or recombined in endless random permutations, but in every encounter there was a winner, and some of the winners grew big enough to dominate the orbit around which they traveled.
Before they had gone twenty paces, a skirmish party of half a dozen men-at-arms, led by du Gaz and Etienne Lefroi, came bursting out of the great hall and collided with them, scattering the startled punkers like ten pins.
He got a good left-handed grip on the gunhand as they collided, his momentum lending force to the considerable impact, and as they went down landed one right that connected satisfactorily.
He collided with the firewood hovel, a hitching rack, and a water trough, and cursed in dark conclusion that mountain villages were an uncivilized place to suffer the virulent effects of brewed hops.
On the threshold she collided with Gatti Jinni, who went over on his back like a beetle.