"collides" in the verb sense
1. clash, jar, collide
be incompatible be or come into conflict
"These colors clash"
2. collide
cause to collide
"The physicists collided the particles"
3. collide, clash
crash together with violent impact
"The cars collided"
"Two meteors clashed"
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