telescoped Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb crush together or collapse
    telescope.
    • In the accident, the cars telescoped
    • my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack
  2. verb make smaller or shorter
    telescope.
    • the novel was telescoped into a short play
  3. adjective satellite shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
    shortened.
    • a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars
    • years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream

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