collide

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So now if we were to smash up--collide, go off the rails, run over a bridge, or something of that sort--just think how he'd feel when he found out I'd cleared twenty thousand by it So that's what you were picturing to yourself He nodded.

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  1. intransitive verb To come together with violent, direct impact.
  2. intransitive verb To meet in opposition; conflict: "an unlikely foray by an industrial conglomerate into the terrain where entertainment and merchandising collide” (Laura Bird).

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  • Would the two blind hunters collide, and so kill each other? —  Grey Wolf, Grey Sea
  • The two streams will collide, at four points, with the energy of two aircraft carriers sailing into each other at 11 knots, inside detectors so vast that one is housed in a cavern that could enclose the nave of Westminster Abbey. —  CRUSADER RABBIT
  • A current leading theory says that when galaxies collide, their black holes end up revolving around each other. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • Two of my favorite shows are about to collide -- and it sounds like it's going to have us ROFWL! —  EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
  • When two planes almost collide, they call it a near miss. —  MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin collīdere : com-, com- + laedere, to strike.

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  1. = Dutch collideren = German collidiren = Danish kollidere = Spanish colidir (obsolete) = Portuguese collidir = Italian collidere, from Latin collidere, conlidere, strike or clash together, from com-, together, + lædere, strike, dash against, hurt: see lesion.
 

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