The AI-powered English dictionary
third-person singular simple present collides, present participle colliding, simple past and past participle collided
(intransitive) To impact directly, especially if violent. quotations examples
Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate.
1865, John Tyndall, The Constitution of the Universe, published 1869, page 14
No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.
1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, (please specify the book or page number)
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.
2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, in BBC Sport
(intransitive) To come into conflict, or be incompatible. examples