collide
verb /kəˈlaɪd/
/kəˈlaɪd/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they collide | /kəˈlaɪd/ /kəˈlaɪd/ |
he / she / it collides | /kəˈlaɪdz/ /kəˈlaɪdz/ |
past simple collided | /kəˈlaɪdɪd/ /kəˈlaɪdɪd/ |
past participle collided | /kəˈlaɪdɪd/ /kəˈlaɪdɪd/ |
-ing form colliding | /kəˈlaɪdɪŋ/ /kəˈlaɪdɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] if two people, vehicles, etc. collide, they crash into each other; if a person, vehicle, etc. collides with another, or with something that is not moving, they crash into it
- The car and the van collided head-on in thick fog.
- Two trains collided head-on.
- collide with something/somebody The car collided head-on with the van.
- As he fell, his head collided with the table.
Synonyms crashcrashTopics Transport by car or lorryc1- slam
- collide
- smash
- wreck
- crash to hit an object or another vehicle, causing damage; to make a vehicle do this:
- I was terrified that the plane would crash.
- slam (something) into/against somebody/something to crash into something with a lot of force; to make something do this:
- The car skidded and slammed into a tree.
- collide (rather formal) (of two vehicles or people) to crash into each other; (of a vehicle or person) to crash into somebody/something else:
- The car and the van collided head-on in thick fog.
- smash (rather informal) to crash into something with a lot of force; to make something do this; to crash a car:
- Ram-raiders smashed a stolen car through the shop window.
- wreck to crash a vehicle and damage it so badly that it is not worth repairing
- two vehicles crash/collide
- two vehicles crash/slam/smash into each other
- to crash/smash/wreck a car
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- almost
- nearly
- head-on
- …
- with
- [intransitive] collide (with somebody) (over something) (formal) (of people, their opinions, etc.) to disagree strongly
- They regularly collide over policy decisions.
see also collision
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘cause to collide’): from Latin collidere, from col- ‘together’ + laedere ‘to strike’.