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 .

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, 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.