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Telescoped

adjective

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)

Crush together or collapse. "My hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"

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

... at an angle to avoid the smoking pit cradling the wreckage of the Terran ship. There were no signs of life about the Throg plate as he approached. A quarter of its bulk was telescoped back into the rest, and surely none of the aliens could have survived such a smash, tough as they were reputed to be with those horny carapaces serving them in place ...

— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton

... well not one was left to tell Which got the largest share of cuts and slashes; When heroes meet, both sides are bound to beat; They telescoped like ...

— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... 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

... of an hour we were positively all in. There weren't three of us unwounded. The house was a wreck. Wilbur had a broken nose. "Chick" Struthers' kneecap hurt. "Lima" Bean's ribs were telescoped, and there wasn't a good shin in the house. We quit in disgust and sat around looking at Ole. He was sitting around, too. He happened to be sitting on Bangs, who was yelling for help. But we didn't feel ...

— At Good Old Siwash • George Fitch