collide

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈlɑɪd/

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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.

• clash

• collision

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

• Cedillo, codille, collied

• Rhymes: -ide

collide

1. third-person singular present indicative of collidere

• decolli

collīde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of collīdō