Category:Collide

Col*lide", v. i. Etym: [L. collidere, collisum; col- + laedere to strike. See Lesion.]

Defn: To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided. Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. Tyndall. No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle.

collide Col*lide", v. t.

Defn: To strike or dash against. [Obs.] Scintillations are. . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. Sir T. Browne.