Definition of "collide with" [collide with]

• Hit against; come into sudden contact with (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "She fled the hall-only to collide with Great Auntie Fanny."
• "But I also understand that there will be times when these obligations collide with other obligations-the obligation to inner-city children who are unable to read, say, or the obligation to children not yet born whom we are saddling with debt."
• "Chang snorted; that was exactly how he needed to collide with Blenheim, or with Major Blach, or with Francis Xonck — with a bottle of beer in one hand and a wad of food in the other."