collides

Verb

collide (third-person singular simple present collides, present participle colliding, simple past and past participle collided)

1. (intransitive) To make a direct impact, especially if violent.
   • When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
2. (intransitive) To come into conflict, or be incompatible.
   • China collided with the modern world.
3. (intransitive, poetic) 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
4. (transitive) To cause to collide.