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.
Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate.
Tyndall.
No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.
Carlyle.
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Col*lide", v. t.
To strike or dash against.
[Obs.]
Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided.
Sir T. Browne.
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