GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Collide (?), v. i. [L. collidere, collisum; col- + laedere to strike. See Lesion.] To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, “the vessels collided; their interests collided”.
   
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   Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. Tyndall.
   
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   No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle.
   
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   Collide, v. t. To strike or dash against. [Obs.]
   
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   Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. Sir T. Browne.
   
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