Collide definition

Collide

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WordNet

(1) Crash together with violent impact

"The cars collided"

"Two meteors clashed"

(2) Cause to collide

"The physicists collided the particles"

(3) Be incompatible; be or come into conflict

"These colors clash"

WiktionaryText

From < + ; see lesion.

To impact directly, especially if violent

When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
To come into conflict, or be incompatible

Tibet collided with the modern world.