collide
verb/kəˈlaɪd/
/kəˈlaɪd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they collide | /kəˈlaɪd/ /kəˈlaɪd/ |
| he / she / it collides | /kəˈlaɪdz/ /kəˈlaɪdz/ |
| past simple collided | /kəˈlaɪdɪd/ /kəˈlaɪdɪd/ |
| past participle collided | /kəˈlaɪdɪd/ /kəˈlaɪdɪd/ |
| -ing form colliding | /kəˈlaɪdɪŋ/ /kəˈlaɪdɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] if two people, vehicles, etc. collide, they crash into each other; if a person, vehicle, etc. collides with another, or with something that is not moving, they crash into it
- The car and the van collided head-on in thick fog.
- Two trains collided head-on.
- collide with something/somebody The car collided head-on with the van.
- As he fell, his head collided with the table.
Synonyms crashcrashslam ▪ collide ▪ smash ▪ wreckThese are all words that can be used when something, especially a vehicle, hits something else very hard and is damaged or destroyed.crash to hit an object or another vehicle, causing damage; to make a vehicle do this:Topics Transport by car or lorryc1- I was terrified that the plane would crash.
- The car skidded and slammed into a tree.
- The car and the van collided head-on in thick fog.
- Ram-raiders smashed a stolen car through the shop window.
- two vehicles crash/collide
- two vehicles crash/slam/smash into each other
- to crash/smash/wreck a car
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- almost
- nearly
- head-on
- …
- with
- [intransitive] collide (with somebody) (over something) (formal) (of people, their opinions, etc.) to disagree strongly
- They regularly collide over policy decisions.
see also collision
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘cause to collide’): from Latin collidere, from col- ‘together’ + laedere ‘to strike’.
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