Definitions for: Foreshorten

[v] reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
[v] shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth

Webster (1913) Definition: Fore*short"en, v. t.
1. (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.

2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.

Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened
in the tract of time. --Tennyson.

Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten

See Also: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, concentrate, condense, decrease, expurgate, lessen, minify

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