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English Dictionary: collide	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for collide
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
collide v be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash" Synonym(s): clash, jar, collide cause to collide; "The physicists collided the particles" crash together with violent impact; "The cars collided"; "Two meteors clashed" Synonym(s): collide, clash
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Collide \Col*lide"\, v. i. [L. collidere, collisum; col- + laedere to strike. See {Lesion}.] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Collide \Col*lide"\, v. t. To strike or dash against. [Obs.] Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. --Sir T. Browne.