telescoped Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb crush together or collapse
telescope.
- In the accident, the cars telescoped
- my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack
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verb make smaller or shorter
telescope.
- the novel was telescoped into a short play
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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