foreshorten

Meaning of foreshorten

verb
  1. portray or show (an object or view) as closer than it is or as having less depth or distance, as an effect of perspective or the angle of vision.
    seen from the road, the mountain is greatly foreshortened
  2. prematurely or dramatically shorten or reduce (something) in time or scale.
    our experience is that it is usually a mistake to try to foreshorten the process
    Leicestershire won by 133 runs in a foreshortened contest

Information about foreshorten

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of foreshorten is: foreshortens.
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Hyphenation of foreshorten

fore-shorten

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 11 chars.
  • foreshorten is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

foreshorten synonyms

Meaning abridge:

abridge, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce

Translation of foreshorten

Words that rhyme with foreshorten

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