Word Study
foreshorten
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb foreshorten has 2 senses
- foreshorten(v = verb.change) abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
- foreshorten(v = verb.change) Array - shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth; Array is one way to shorten
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s something
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
foreshorten, v. t.
- To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective. [1913 Webster]
- Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. [1913 Webster]"Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie
Foreshortened in the tract of time." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
foreshorten, v.tr. show or portray (an object) with the apparent shortening due to visual perspective.
THESAURUS
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
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