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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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