In the collision with a Volvo, our car naturally got the worst of it.
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Collision
//kəˈlɪʒn̩//
Synonyms for "collision" (143 found)
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1 entriesTranslations
65 translations across 45 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- κροῦσις noun (instance of colliding)
- σύρραξις noun (instance of colliding)
Arabic
2 entries- اِصْطِدَام noun (instance of colliding)
- تَصَادُّم noun (instance of colliding)
Armenian
1 entries- բախում noun (instance of colliding)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- toqquşma noun (instance of colliding)
Basque
1 entries- talka noun (instance of colliding)
Belarusian
1 entries- сутыкне́нне noun (instance of colliding)
Bulgarian
1 entries- сблъ́скване noun (instance of colliding)
Catalan
1 entries- col·lisió noun (instance of colliding)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 碰撞 noun (instance of colliding)
Czech
1 entries- srážka noun (instance of colliding)
Danish
1 entries- kollision noun (instance of colliding)
Dutch
1 entries- botsing noun (instance of colliding)
Esperanto
1 entries- kolizio noun (instance of colliding)
Finnish
3 entries- kolari noun (instance of colliding)
- törmäys noun (instance of colliding)
- yhteentörmäys noun (instance of colliding)
French
1 entries- collision noun (instance of colliding)
Galician
1 entries- colisión noun (instance of colliding)
Georgian
2 entries- დაჯახება noun (instance of colliding)
- შეჯახება noun (instance of colliding)
German
2 entries- Kollision noun (instance of colliding)
- Zusammenstoß noun (instance of colliding)
Greek
1 entries- σύγκρουση noun (instance of colliding)
Hebrew
1 entries- הִתנַגְשׁוּת noun (instance of colliding)
Hindi
1 entries- टक्कर noun (instance of colliding)
Hungarian
1 entries- ütközés noun (instance of colliding)
Icelandic
2 entries- ákeyrsla noun (instance of colliding)
- árekstur noun (instance of colliding)
Italian
1 entries- collisione noun (instance of colliding)
Japanese
1 entries- 衝突 noun (instance of colliding)
Korean
1 entries- 충돌 noun (instance of colliding)
Latin
2 entries- collisio noun (instance of colliding)
- conflictus noun (instance of colliding)
Macedonian
1 entries- судир noun (instance of colliding)
Māori
2 entries- hūtakitanga noun (instance of colliding)
- tūtakitanga noun (instance of colliding)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kollisjon noun (instance of colliding)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kollisjon noun (instance of colliding)
Persian
1 entries- برخورد noun (instance of colliding)
Polish
2 entries- kolizja noun (instance of colliding)
- zderzenie noun (instance of colliding)
Portuguese
1 entries- colisão noun (instance of colliding)
Romanian
2 entries- ciocnire noun (instance of colliding)
- coliziune noun (instance of colliding)
Russian
3 entries- колли́зия noun (instance of colliding)
- соударе́ние noun (instance of colliding)
- столкнове́ние noun (instance of colliding)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- sraz noun (instance of colliding)
- sȕdār noun (instance of colliding)
- су̏да̄р noun (instance of colliding)
Slovak
1 entries- zrážka noun (instance of colliding)
Slovene
2 entries- trk noun (instance of colliding)
- trčenje noun (instance of colliding)
Spanish
1 entries- colisión noun (instance of colliding)
Swedish
3 entries- kollidering noun (instance of colliding)
- kollision noun (instance of colliding)
- krock noun (instance of colliding)
Ukrainian
2 entries- зуда́р noun (instance of colliding)
- зі́ткнення noun (instance of colliding)
Urdu
2 entries- ٹَکَّر noun (instance of colliding)
- ٹَکْراو noun (instance of colliding)
White Hmong
1 entries- tsoo noun (instance of colliding)
Yakut
1 entries- анньыһыы noun (instance of colliding)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
His story of the collision agrees with mine.
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There was a multiple collision on the highway.
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The bike was mangled in its collision with the truck.
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