foreshortens

Meaning of foreshortens

verb, 3rd person present
  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 foreshortens

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

fore-short-ens

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
  • foreshortens is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

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