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Webster 1913 Edition


Collide

Col-lide′

,
Verb.
I.
[L.
collidere
,
collisum
;
col-
+
laedere
to strike. See
Lesion
.]
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.

Col-lide′

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

Webster 1828 Edition


Collide

COLLIDE

,
Verb.
I.
To strike or dash against each other.