SkyfireDict

telescoped   (TTS Sound)

The verb telescope has 2 senses

• telescope -- (crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack")


• telescope -- (make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play")

The adj telescoped has 1 sense

• telescoped, shortened -- (shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream")