All 4 Uses of
collide
in
David Copperfield
- 'But it is not necessary,' said Miss Murdstone, 'that these opinions should come into collision here.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- 'My love,' said Mr. Micawber, much affected, 'you will forgive, and our old and tried friend Copperfield will, I am sure, forgive, the momentary laceration of a wounded spirit, made sensitive by a recent collision with the Minion of Power — in other words, with a ribald Turncock attached to the water-works — and will pity, not condemn, its excesses.'†
Chpt 28-30
- The conflicting interests of these touting gentlemen being of a nature to irritate their feelings, personal collisions took place; and the Commons was even scandalized by our principal inveigler (who had formerly been in the wine trade, and afterwards in the sworn brokery line) walking about for some days with a black eye.†
Chpt 37-39
- Mr. Dick made his two hands revolve very fast about each other a great number of times, and then brought them into collision, and rolled them over and over one another, to express confusion.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(collide) crash together with violent impact; or come into conflict