Col*lide" , v. t. To strike or dash against.
[Obs.] Scintillations are . . .
inflammable effluencies from the bodies
collided. Sir T.
Browne.
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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