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Definition

crash together with violent impact; or come into conflict

The cars collided and burst into flame.

collided = crashed together with violent impact

The physicists collided the particles
[T]hey represented the demon forces forever in collision with beauty, virtue, and the gentle uses of life
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss

(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)

The collision sent both of us flying to the ground.
Darren Shan -- A Vampire's Assistant

collision = crash together with violent impact

The night I watched two cars collide in a dark intersection.
Jay Asher -- Thirteen Reasons Why

collide = crash together with violent impact

His vehicle rolls until it collides with the rear of a parked truck.
Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven

collides = crashes together

They collided, half-collapsed, knocked elbows, cracked heads, which blew the air out faster.
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes

collided = crashed together with violent impact

A second later my chest collided against the hood of a moving car.
Dave Pelzer -- The Lost Boy

collided = crash together with violent impact

You mean we might have a collision?
Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

collision = crash

When you're dancing — if you and your partner collide into another couple.
Athol Fugard -- Master Harold...and the Boys

collide = crash together with violent impact

But it was inevitable that these two worlds—the one where I was just another teenager and the one where I was pretending not to be—would collide.
John Corey Whaley -- Nogin

collide = crash together with violent impact; or come into conflict

Wood roared as Harry swerved to avoid a collision.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

collision = violent impact

I read about the great convulsions of the earth, of the continents shifting away from each other, colliding with each other.
David Almond -- Kit's Wilderness

colliding = crashing together with violent impact

As we turned and climbed, she turned and climbed with us, keeping herself on a collision course.
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn

collision = to crash together with violent impact

I was back there in that theater in Kansas City five years after all reason and all logic and all history collided together to say I was gone forever because this girl needed me just as much as I needed her.
John Corey Whaley -- Nogin
And like a factory, a hospital has its own rhythm, sounds from every room that collide in the air and echo down into your ears and repeat themselves, even in the nighttime, when the world wants so had to appear silent and quiet and peaceful.
John Corey Whaley -- Nogin
In midstroke, Thibault collided with the submerged central landing of the bridge.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One
They skidded and shied away from him, colliding with those behind them.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
As Arachne fell, she screamed like a freight train on a collision course; but her wailing rapidly faded.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena

Terrific rams of darkness collided; out of their shock space toppled into havoc.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep

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