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Verb: collide  ku'lId
  1. Be incompatible; be or come into conflict
    "These colours collide"
    - clash, jar
     
  2. Cause to collide
    "The physicists collided the particles"
     
  3. Crash together with violent impact
    "The cars collided"
    - clash

Derived forms: collides, collided, colliding

See also: collider, collision

Type of: collide with, conflict, hit, impact, impinge on, run into, strike

Encyclopedia: Collide