Definition of foreshortened Foreshortened
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What does foreshortened mean?
Part of speech
🔤- foreshortened, verb, past participle of foreshorten (infinitive).
- foreshortened, verb, past simple of foreshorten (infinitive).
WordNet
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| foreshorten - shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | ||
| shorten become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten" | ||
| foreshorten - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" | ||
| abridge, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce | ||
| expatiate, lucubrate, dilate, exposit, expound, flesh out, elaborate, enlarge, expand become wider; "His pupils were dilated" | ||
| minify, decrease, lessen decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" | ||
| bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, castrate, shorten edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" | ||
| edit out, edit, cut prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages" | ||
| condense, concentrate, digest undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged 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. - foreshorten (v. t.)
Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.
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foreshorten
To draw the image of an object such that it appears to be reduced or shortened, in order to give the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye
Part of speech
🔤- foreshorten, verb, present, 1st person singular of foreshorten (infinitive).
- foreshorten, verb (infinitive).
