telescoped Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb crush together or collapse
   telescope.
   
   • In the accident, the cars telescoped
   • my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack
2. verb make smaller or shorter
   telescope.
   
   • the novel was telescoped into a short play
3. adjective satellite shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
   shortened.
   
   • a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars
   • years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream

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