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Collide

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To impact directly, especially if violent. intransitive

    "When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved."

  2. 2
    crash together with violent impact wordnet
  3. 3
    To come into conflict, or be incompatible. intransitive

    "China collided with the modern world."

  4. 4
    cause to collide wordnet
  5. 5
    To meet; to come into contact. intransitive, poetic

    "Out of the doubts that fill my mind / I somehow find, you and I collide"

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  1. 6
    be incompatible; be or come into conflict wordnet
  2. 7
    To cause to collide. transitive

Etymology

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

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