English

Verb

collide ‎(third-person singular simple present collides, present participle colliding, simple past and past participle collided)

1. To impact directly, especially if violent

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

   • Tyndall

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

   • Carlyle

     No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.

   • 2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, in BBC Sport:

     And this friendly was not without its injury worries, with defender Gary Cahill substituted early on after a nasty, needless push by Dries Mertens that caused him to collide with goalkeeper Joe Hart, an incident that left the Chelsea defender requiring a precautionary X-ray at Wembley.

2. To come into conflict, or be incompatible

   China collided with the modern world.

Synonyms

• clash

Related terms

• collision

Translations

External links

• collide in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• collide in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• collied

Italian

Verb

collide

1. third-person singular present indicative of collidere

Anagrams

• decolli

Latin

Verb

collīde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of collīdō