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   collide

   /kəˈlʌɪd/

   verb

   • 1. hit by accident when moving: "she collided with someone" Similar crash (into)come into collision (with)bang (into)slam (into)impact (with)hitstrikerun intomeet head-onsmash intosmack intocannon intoplough intobump intocrack into/againstknock intodash againstinformal:barrel into
   • ▪ come into conflict or opposition: "in his work, politics and metaphysics collide" Similar conflictbe in conflictcome into conflictbe in oppositionclashdifferdivergedisagreebe at variancebe at oddsbe incompatibleOpposite coalesce

   Word Origin early 17th century (in the sense ‘cause to collide’): from Latin collidere, from col- ‘together’ + laedere ‘to strike’.

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