Synonyms for collide
kəˈlaɪdcol·lide

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1. collideverb

   Synonyms:
   clash

2. collideverb

   To impact directly, especially if violent

   When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.

   Synonyms:
   clash

3. collideverb

   To come into conflict, or be incompatible

   Tibet collided with the modern world.

   Synonyms:
   clash

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. clash, jar, collideverb

   be incompatible; be or come into conflict

   "These colors clash"

   Synonyms:
   jolt, bump around, shake up, clash, jar

2. collideverb

   cause to collide

   "The physicists collided the particles"

   Synonyms:
   clash, jar

3. collide, clashverb

   crash together with violent impact

   "The cars collided"; "Two meteors clashed"

   Synonyms:
   clash, jar

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. collideverb

   Synonyms:
   clash, come into collision, strike against each other

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "collide":

   collision, crash, collided

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1. Samuel Butler:

   Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.

2. Don McIntyre:

   If you turn your vehicle around and intentionally collide with a police vehicle, you are going to be charged with attempted murder on police.

3. Christian Bripschgi:

   In the murder-free zone we were looking to create, nobody will be killed with guns, knives, sticks, or anything of the sort, college is a place where ideas collide, and the administration should be there to foster an environment where that can take place.

4. Alain Lecavelier des Etangs:

   We can not assure that the observed comets are likely to deliver material like water to planets orbiting Beta Pictoris, but our observations show that collisions are very common and therefore suggests that temperate planets can be enriched in material trapped in frozen ices captured by the comets when( the comets) are far from the star and later collide with the planets.

5. H. L. Mencken:

   I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. ....Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.