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collide.

To make a direct impact, especially if violent.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/kəˈlaɪd/UK, US
  1. To make a direct impact, especially if violent.

    intransitive
    When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
  2. To come into conflict, or be incompatible.

    intransitive
    China collided with the modern world.
  3. To meet; to come into contact.

    intransitive · poetic
  4. To cause to collide.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From Latin collīdō (“to clash, strike, dash, beat, or press together”), from con- (“together”) + laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”) (whence col- (“assimilated form of com-”)).

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