Foreshorten \Fore*short"en\, v. t.
1. (Fine Art) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended
in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to
shorten by drawing in perspective.
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2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.
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Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie
Foreshortened in the tract of time. --Tennyson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
foreshorten
v 1: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The
manuscript must be shortened" [syn: abridge, abbreviate,
shorten, cut, contract, reduce] [ant: elaborate]
2: shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of
depth
WordNet (r) 2.0
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "foreshorten":
abbreviate, abridge, abstract, bob, boil down, capsulize, clip,
compress, condense, contract, crop, curtail, cut, cut back,
cut down, cut off short, cut short, dock, elide, epitomize, mow,
nip, poll, pollard, prune, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce,
retrench, shave, shear, shorten, snub, stunt, sum up, summarize,
synopsize, take in, telescope, trim, truncate
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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