All 10 Uses
collide
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Before I Fall
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- That's how it started with my grandmother: ideas swirling around and colliding with each other, causes coming after effects, and point A switched with point B. When my grandmother was still alive we would visit her, and even though I was no more than six, I remember thinking: I hope I die young.†
p. 44.8colliding = crashing together with violent impact; or coming into conflict
- Words are distorted and music sounds the way it does at a carnival, like all the notes are off balance and just colliding with one another.†
p. 116.6
- We collide so hard it takes me a second to recover my breath.†
p. 160.2 *
- At the top of the stairs I almost collide with Kent.†
p. 241.8
- I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision.†
p. 286.1collision = the crashing of things with violent impact; or coming together into conflict
- I reach back once more for some memory of life beyond the collision, beyond the blackness, but I get nothing.†
p. 307.4
- I take a few hesitant steps in the direction of the flashlight, keeping my arms out in front of me so I don't collide with anything.†
p. 318.9
- I wonder if that's how they would have explained it to my parents at the hospital—collision, passenger side, impact.†
p. 331.2collision = the crashing of things with violent impact; or coming together into conflict
- Memories are colliding in my head: the sound of people singing as I walked down the hall, the smell of ice cream on Lindsay's breath the day we threw Beth's tampons out the window, riding a horse through a blur of trees.†
p. 383.1colliding = crashing together with violent impact; or coming into conflict
- Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.†
p. 402.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(collide) crash together with violent impact; or come into conflict
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)