collide

verb
/kəˈlaɪd/UK

Etymology

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

  1. derived from collidere

Definitions

  1. To impact directly, especially if violent.

    • When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
    • Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate.
    • No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.
  2. To come into conflict, or be incompatible.

    • China collided with the modern world.
  3. To meet

    To meet; to come into contact.

    • Out of the doubts that fill my mind / I somehow find, you and I collide
    • I knew when we collided / you're the one I have decided who's one of my kind
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. To cause to collide.

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