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collide

verb/kəˈlaɪd/

crash forcefully against another object

There was such a heavy fog at the airport that two planes nearly collided.

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word origin — early 17th century (in the sense ‘cause to collide’): from Latin collidere, from col- ‘together’ + laedere ‘to strike’