collide with

1. 1.

   hit against; come into sudden contact with

   “The car hit a tree”

   “He struck the table with his elbow”

   Synonymshitstrikeimpinge onrun into

   Broadertouch

   Narrowerstubpingspangrear-endbroadsideconnectspatthudbottombottom out

Questions about collide with

What does collide with mean?

collide with means "hit against; come into sudden contact with".

What is another word for collide with?

Close synonyms include hit, strike, impinge on, run into. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is collide with a common word?

collide with is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.