COLLIDE

collide. Collide, v.t. to dash or strike together, ob.

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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.