{
    "term": "collide",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "collide",
            "heSheIt": "collides"
        },
        "pastSimple": "collided",
        "pastParticiple": "collided",
        "ingForm": "colliding"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "if two people, vehicles, etc. collide, they crash into each other; if a person, vehicle, etc. collides with another, or with something that is not moving, they crash into it",
            "sensetop": "collide with something/somebody",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The car and the van collided head-on in thick fog."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Two trains collided head-on."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The car collided head-on with the van.",
                    "contextForm": "collide with something/somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "As he fell, his head collided with the table."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by car or lorry"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["almost", "nearly", "head-on"],
                "preposition": ["with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to disagree strongly",
            "sensetop": "collide (with somebody) (over something)",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They regularly collide over policy decisions."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlaɪd/",
                "audio": "co/collide/collide__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlaɪdz/",
                "audio": "co/collide/collides__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlaɪdɪd/",
                "audio": "co/collide/collided__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlaɪdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/collide/colliding__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlaɪd/",
                "audio": "co/collide/collide__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlaɪdz/",
                "audio": "co/collide/collides__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlaɪdɪd/",
                "audio": "co/collide/collided__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlaɪdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/collide/colliding__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘cause to collide’): from Latin collidere, from col- ‘together’ + laedere ‘to strike’."
}