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Telescoped

adjective
1.
Shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another.  Synonym: shortened.  "Years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"


Telescope

verb
(past & past part. telescoped; pres. part. telescoping)
1.
Crush together or collapse.  "My hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"
2.
Make smaller or shorter.



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"Telescoped" Quotes from Famous Books



... the enclosure, which he found to be about three feet in length and about the same in width. His tall figure of six feet four was practically telescoped. ...
— The Southerner - A Romance of the Real Lincoln • Thomas Dixon
... compelled to shoot with one hand above my head, I was handicapped; I was able to shoot twenty-one times in ten seconds. Once we almost telescoped, and I jumped over him—his head must have passed within fifty centimeters of my wheels. That disgusted him; he went away and let me go. I came back with an intake pipe burst, one rocker torn away: the splinters ...
— Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air • Henry Bordeaux
... sentinel on guard along the shore front of Petropavlovsk descried a strange apparition approaching across the silver surface of an unruffled sea. It was like a huge whale, racing, galloping, coming in leaps and bounds of flying fins over the water towards the fort. The soldier telescoped his eyes with his hands and looked again. This was no whale. There was a mast pole with a limp skin-thing for sail. It was a big, clumsy, raft-shaped flat-boat. The oarsmen were rowing like pursued maniacs, rising and falling ...
— Pioneers of the Pacific Coast - A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters • Agnes C. Laut


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