foreshorten
verb/fɔːˈʃɔːtn/
/fɔːrˈʃɔːrtn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they foreshorten | /fɔːˈʃɔːtn/ /fɔːrˈʃɔːrtn/ |
| he / she / it foreshortens | /fɔːˈʃɔːtnz/ /fɔːrˈʃɔːrtnz/ |
| past simple foreshortened | /fɔːˈʃɔːtnd/ /fɔːrˈʃɔːrtnd/ |
| past participle foreshortened | /fɔːˈʃɔːtnd/ /fɔːrˈʃɔːrtnd/ |
| -ing form foreshortening | /fɔːˈʃɔːtnɪŋ/ /fɔːrˈʃɔːrtnɪŋ/ |
- foreshorten something/somebody (specialist) to draw, photograph, etc. objects or people so that they look smaller or closer together than they really are
- Viewed from above, their bodies were foreshortened and partly hidden.
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- foreshorten something (formal) to end something before it would normally finish synonym curtail
- a foreshortened education
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