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Foreshorten   Listen
verb
Foreshorten  v. t.  
1.
(Fine Art) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
2.
Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. "Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time."






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Words linked to "Foreshorten" :   shorten, condense, expand, decrease, reduce, expurgate, edit, cut, abbreviate, contract, lessen, concentrate, edit out, digest, bowdlerize, bowdlerise, abridge, minify, castrate



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