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Confrontation vs Collide - What's the difference?

confrontation | collide |

As a noun confrontation

is the act of confronting or challenging another, especially face-to-face.

As a verb collide is

to impact directly, especially if violent.

confrontation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face-to-face
  • A conflict between armed forces
  • 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