collide Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb be incompatible; be or come into conflict
    jar; clash.
    • These colors clash
  2. verb cause to collide
    • The physicists collided the particles
  3. verb crash together with violent impact
    clash.
    • The cars collided
    • Two meteors clashed

WordNet

Col*lide" intransitive verb
Etymology
L. collidere, collisum; col- + laedere to strike. See Lesion.
Definitions
  1. 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.
Col*lide" transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To strike or dash against. Obs.
    Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1913