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to collide
01
to come into sudden and forceful contact with another object or person
Intransitive: to collide | to collide with sb/sth
Grammatical Information
Movement verb
Regular
Present tense
collide
3rd person singular
collides
Past simple
collided
Past participle
collided
Examples
The two cars collided at the intersection, resulting in a minor accident.
02
to cause two or more things to come into forceful contact
Transitive: to collide two things | to collide sth with sth
Examples
The storm collided the waves with the shore, causing significant erosion.
03
(of people, their opinions, ideas, etc.) to seriously disagree
Intransitive
Examples
Their ideas about how to handle the project collided, causing a delay in progress.
Lexical Tree
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