collided; colliding
1
: to come together with solid or direct impact
The car collided with a tree.
Two helicopters collided.
2
: clash
colliding cultures
Science and religion collided in the court.
Examples of collide in a Sentence
Two football players collided on the field.
the candidate had a reputation as a maverick whose positions often collided with the party platform
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Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2025
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Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2025
Lai draws their exchanges as colliding speech bubbles.
—E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
Zoox also issued two voluntary software recalls in May after its robotaxi collided with an e-scooter rider in San Francisco and one of its vehicles was involved in a crash with a passenger car in Las Vegas.
—Lora Kolodny,jennifer Elias,annie Palmer, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025
When these two forces collide, the effects show up in very real, very human ways.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 16 Dec. 2025
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“Collide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collide. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.
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collide
verb
col·lide
kə-ˈlīd 
collided; colliding
1
: to come together with solid impact
the football players collided
2
: clash entry 1 sense 2a
their different outlooks collided
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