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collide

/kəˈlaɪd/verb2 syllables

Collide means: be incompatible; be or come into conflict.

Synonyms for collide2

verb, as in be incompatible; be or come into conflict

clash, jar

verb, as in crash together with violent impact

clash

What does collide mean?3

verb

1

be incompatible; be or come into conflict“These colors clash”

2

crash together with violent impact“The cars collided”

3

cause to collide“The physicists collided the particles”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with collide?48

three syllables

alongside
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All 48 rhymes for collide, grouped by syllable

Collide in a sentence

  • Egoists do not meet, they collide with each other.Eldad
  • If we continue in this way, we will collide with the wall.espjulie
  • The views of the two politicians collide violently.unknown
  • The train was about to collide with another train.Amastan
  • The bat swerved to avoid colliding with a tree.Amastan
  • The bus collided head-on with a car that was speeding.Nuel
  • Her car collided with a bus from behind.unknown
  • The taxi collided head-on with a dump truck and was badly crushed.unknown

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of collide

as a verb

past tense
collided
present participle
colliding
third-person singular
collides
past participle
collided