Collide — Defs

01 v. i. To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.

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To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.
“Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate.” — Tyndall.

“No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.” — Carlyle.

02 v. t. To strike or dash against.

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To strike or dash against.[Obs.]
“Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided.” — Sir T. Browne.