What does collide mean?
Collide means (intransitive) To impact directly, especially if violent..
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/kəˈlaɪd/ · verb
(intransitive) To impact directly, 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.
No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.
And this friendly was not without its injury worries, with defender Gary Cahill substituted early on after a nasty, needless push by Dries Mertens that caused him to collide with goalkeeper Joe Hart, an incident that left the Chelsea defender requiring a precautionary X-ray at Wembley.
China collided with the modern world.
Out of the doubts that fill my mind / I somehow find, you and I collide
I knew when we collided / you're the one I have decided who's one of my kind
Use collide when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Collide means (intransitive) To impact directly, especially if violent..
Common synonyms include clash, jar.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
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