foreshorten Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
reduce; cut; abbreviate; abridge; shorten; contract.
- The manuscript must be shortened
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verb shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth
WordNet
Fore*short"en transitive verb
Definitions
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(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. -
Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.
