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VERB (3)

1. be incompatible; be or come into conflict;
- Example: "These colors clash"
[syn: clash, jar, collide]

2. cause to collide;
- Example: "The physicists collided the particles"

3. crash together with violent impact;
- Example: "The cars collided"
- Example: "Two meteors clashed"
[syn: collide, clash]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Collide \Col*lide"\, v. 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. [1913 Webster] Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. --Tyndall. [1913 Webster] No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Collide \Col*lide"\, v. t. To strike or dash against. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

collide v 1: be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash" [syn: clash, jar, collide] 2: cause to collide; "The physicists collided the particles" 3: crash together with violent impact; "The cars collided"; "Two meteors clashed" [syn: collide, clash]