COLLIDES

Verb

collides

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collide

Anagrams

• Cedillos

Source: Wiktionary


COLLIDE

Col*lide", v. i. Etym: [L. collidere, collisum; col- + laedere to strike. See Lesion.]

Definition: To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided. Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. Tyndall. No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle.

Col*lide", v. t.

Definition: To strike or dash against. [Obs.] Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. Sir T. Browne.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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TEMPORIZE

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