collide
Etymology

From Latin collidere, from com- ("together") + laedere ("to strike, dash against, hurt"); see lesion.

Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /kəˈlaɪd/
Verb

collide (collides, present participle colliding; simple past and past participle collided)

  1. (intransitive) To impact directly, especially if violent.
    When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC ↗, (please specify the book or page number):
      No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.
  2. (intransitive) To come into conflict, or be incompatible.
    China collided with the modern world.
  3. (poetic, intransitive) To meet; to come into contact.
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