- in painting, drawing, etc., to represent some lines of (an object) as shorter than they actually are in order to give the illusion of proper relative size, in accordance with the principles of perspective
- to present in condensed form; abridge
foreshorten
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foreshorten
transitive verb
fore·short·ened, fore·short·en·ing, fore·short·ens- To shorten the lines of (an object) in a drawing or other representation so as to produce an illusion of projection or extension in space.
- To reduce the length of; curtail or abridge.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present foreshortens, present participle foreshortening, simple past and past participle foreshortened)
Origin
From fore- + shorten
Verb
(third-person singular simple present foreshortens, present participle foreshortening, simple past and past participle foreshortened)
Origin
Alteration of for- + shorten (“to shorten up”).
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