COLLIDED Synonyms: 71 Similar and Opposite Words

collided

verb

past tense of collide

as in clashed

to be out of harmony or agreement usually noticeably the candidate had a reputation as a maverick whose positions often collided with the party platform

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as in bumped

to come into usually forceful contact with something fortunately, I wasn't hurt when my bike collided with that fence

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Recent Examples of collided On July 21, a man on an e-bike collided with a vehicle at the intersection of Warner Avenue and Plaza Lane. — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026 As a result, the right side of the pickup truck collided with the right side of the motorcycle. — Felix Rodriguez, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026 The boats collided about 14 miles southwest of mile marker 41, in a remote area between Interstate 75 and Tamiami Trail, near the Miccosukee Indian Reservation. — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026 One of the individuals involved later claimed on TikTok that the robot had accidentally collided with a woman while trying to avoid another passerby. — October 14, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 Things nearly got even worse for the Rays in the ninth, when Caminero and left fielder Jonny DeLuca collided while chasing Brayan Rocchio’s foul ball. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 State police believe that the pickup truck collided with the motorcycle in the right travel lane of I-95 North just before the exit ramp leading into the Darien rest area. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 13 Oct. 2026 Proposals to assess older physicians have collided with fierce professional resistance, legal challenges and debate about the value of cognitive screening. — Katherine Ellison, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2026 One person was killed when their car collided with an Independence Police Department patrol vehicle early Sunday, according to police. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2026

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Reputational risks Trump’s regulators are handing ⁠Wall Street banks major capital relief and have already clashed with Democrats when defending their policies during congressional hearings.

— Reuters, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026
Prosecutors and defense attorneys have clashed over whether DNA evidence revealed the killer or an unreliable investigation where key physical evidence vanished.

— Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of clashed

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The surfer who made the report was not bumped, bitten or otherwise hurt by the shark, Peters said.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Jay just gets bumped from one squishy chamber of viscous lumps to another, fighting like hell to avoid following his squid adversary through a puckering hole and deeper into the digestive system, where the air turns into methane.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026

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Detectives say the video and phone data conflicted with his account.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
San Francisco Bay Area residents, living in the beating heart of the artificial intelligence boom, are just as conflicted about the technology as the rest of the country.

— Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026

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Shortly after, Wilcox slammed on the brakes, jumped out of his vehicle, took out a loaded semi-automatic handgun and fired three gunshots at the officer, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Simon has weakened to a Category 2 storm, its eye remaining just offshore as its most powerful winds and rain slammed communities between the Sierra Madre and the ocean and were forecast to persist off the coast of Puerto Vallarta.

— JAIMIE DING, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026

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Protesters have hurled rocks at police, burned government buildings, smashed shop windows and destroyed private property.

— Chris Massaro, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Carl Court / Getty In cities across the country, demonstrators set fire to newsstands and smashed windows.

— Max Butterworth, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of smashed

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Garrett Mitchell walked, rookie Cooper Pratt laid down a sacrifice bunt and light-hitting Luis Lara banged the next pitch up the middle to score Mitchell from second for the 2-1 lead.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
On this day in 1960, one of the most shocking and iconic Cold War moments unfolded when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev brandished and banged his shoe at the United Nations.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of banged

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Evidence released in court later appeared to contradict several of the administration's claims, including that Martinez rammed the CBP vehicle and was driving toward Exum when the agent opened fire.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Each block of concrete-limestone mixture was hand-rammed by 11 workers to create a distinctive block.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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