0 past simple and past participle of collide
1 (especially of moving objects) to hit something violently:
The two vans collided at the crossroads.
It was predicted that a comet would collide with one of the planets.
These 'collective' projects have collided with individual understandings and memories of the people who were disappeared by relatives and by the archaeologists who excavate them.
When the swing foot collided with the ground, support would be transferred impulsively from the heel to the toe at the midstance.
With increasing encounters between municipal leaders and royal administrators, these two different traditions - absolutist thought and civic traditions - collided and converged.
Mainly we seek two parameters: the amplitude or force of a collision and a measure of the type of objects that collided.
There were also obstacles that collided with the manipulator and were not detected.
The maximal tracking error was larger when the obstacles collided with the manipulator because the contact force affects the task space error.
However, if a biological account purports in any way to investigate or explain specifically religious experience, then the two universes have already collided.
The postmodern view of radical instability has collided with processual aversions towards 'meaning', resulting in a stalemate regarding the past.
