Thesaurus: collide

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1. v. i. To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.
2. v. t. To strike or dash against.
3. v. be incompatible; be or come into conflict
4. v. cause to collide
5. v. crash together with violent impact
6. To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided. Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. Tyndall. No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle. To strike or dash against. [Obs.] Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. Sir T. Browne.
7. To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision;to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, theyrecoil, they oscillate. Tyndall.No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle.
8. v:100 v. cause to collide v. crash together with violent impact