What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Collide vs Contradict - What's the difference?

collide | contradict |

As verbs the difference between collide and contradict

is that collide is to impact directly, especially if violent while contradict is (obsolete) to speak against; to forbid.

collide

English

Verb

(collid)
  • To impact directly, especially if violent
  • When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
  • * Tyndall
  • Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide , they recoil, they oscillate.
  • * Carlyle
  • No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding .
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 2 , author= Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Belgium , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=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.}}
  • To come into conflict, or be incompatible
  • China collided with the modern world.

    Synonyms

    * clash

    contradict

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To speak against; to forbid.
  • *, New York 2001, p. 203:
  • magic hath been publically professed in former times, in Salamanca, Cracovia, and other places, though after censured by several universities, and now generally contradicted , though practised by some still […].
  • To deny the truth of (a statement or statements).
  • His testimony contradicts hers.
  • To make a statement denying the truth of the statement(s) made by (a person).
  • Everything he says contradicts me.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself, / And say it is not so.
  • * Wordsworth
  • The future cannot contradict the past.
  • To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.
  • * Hooker
  • No truth can contradict another truth.
  • * Shakespeare
  • A greater power than we can contradict / Hath thwarted our intents.

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * disconfirm * deny * dispute * question * gainsay * refute * controvert * dispute

    See also

    * gainsay