collide
UK/kəˈlaɪd/
collide verb: to make a direct impact, especially if violent.
Verb
collide (third-person singular simple present collides, present participle colliding, simple past and past participle collided)
- To make a direct impact, especially if violent.
- When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
- Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate.1865, John Tyndall, The Constitution of the Universe, published 1869, page 14
- To come into conflict, or be incompatible.
- China collided with the modern world.
- To meet; to come into contact.
- Out of the doubts that fill my mind / I somehow find, you and I collide2004, “Collide”, in Stop All the World Now, performed by Howie Day
- I knew when we collided / you're the one I have decided who's one of my kind2009, “Hey, Soul Sister”, in Save Me, San Francisco, performed by Train
- To cause to collide.
collide meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
collide in Hindi
- to collide, to crash
- टकराना ṭakrānā
collide in Tamil
- இடி, முரண்பாடு, மோது
collide in Urdu
- لڑنا, ٹکرانا, تصادم ہونا
collide in Bengali
- সংঘর্ষ হওয়া
More languagesFewer languages
- collide in Telugu
- ఢీకొనడానికి, ఢీకొనుటకు, ఢీకొనేందుకు
- collide in Malayalam
- ഇടിക്കുക iṭikkuka
- collide in Kannada
- ತಟ್ಟಾಡು, ಡಿಕ್ಕಿ ಹೊಡೆ, ತಾಗು, ರಭಸದಿಂದ ನುಗ್ಗು
- collide in Punjabi
- وجنا vajjṇā
- collide in Gujarati
- ભીડવું bhīḍvũ
- collide in Nepali
- टकराइयोस्
- collide in Arabic
- اِصْطَدَمَ iṣṭadama
- collide in Thai
- โดน doon, ชน chon
- collide in Vietnamese
- đụng nhau
Examples of collide in a sentence
- The Bow Spring put by to avoid colliding with the Manzanillo II.
- He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
- I could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horrible smash of cars colliding.
Synonyms of collide
Forms of collide
| third-person singular present | collides |
|---|---|
| present participle | colliding |
| past participle | collided |
| past | collided |
Origin of collide
From Latin collīdō (“to clash, strike, dash, beat, or press together”), from con- (“together”) + laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”) (whence col- (“assimilated form of com-”)).
Words formed from collide
Words that rhyme with collide
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- provide
- tied
- fried
- glide
- hide
- inside
- bide
- decide
- offside
- -side
- confide
- flipside
- set aside
- stride
- subside
- aside
- beride
- beside
- bestride
- chide
- coincide
- cyanide
- dried
- elide
- eyed
- gride
- preside
- reside
- Ryde
- allied
- applied
- astride
- betide
- bride
- deride
- dyed
- guyed
- I'd
- imide
- incide
- pied
- right side
- said
- snide
- statewide
- tried
- vide
- allide
Questions about collide
- What does collide mean?
- Collide means to make a direct impact, especially if violent.
- What is collide in Hindi?
- Collide in Hindi is टकराना (ṭakrānā). See Collide meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is collide?
- Collide is a verb.
- How do you pronounce collide?
- Collide is pronounced /kəˈlaɪd/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of collide?
- The past tense of collide is collided.
Words near collide in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: collide (page history and authors); टकराना (Hindi) (page history and authors); collide (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collide (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collide (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collide (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ഇടിക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); collide (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); وجنا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ભીડવું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); collide (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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