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Telescoped

adjective

Shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another. Synonym: shortened. "Years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"

Telescope

verb

(past & past part. telescoped; pres. part. telescoping)

Crush together or collapse. "My hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"

Make smaller or shorter.

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"Telescoped" Quotes from Famous Books

... another motor—a blundering brute of a motor—bursts out at fifty miles an hour in front of your nose. If you'd reached that point an instant later, your own virtuous automobile and the wretch that isn't yours would certainly have telescoped, and you'd have been sitting in the nearest tree with your head in your lap. But already I begin to notice that you may pretty well count on reaching the danger point (produced by alien autos) at precisely ...

— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... a silver ladder telescoped down to her from below the door. I thought, the Pilot must have had it keyed to her some way, so it would let down for her but nobody ...

— The Night of the Long Knives • Fritz Reuter Leiber

... at an angle to avoid the smoking pit cradling the wreckage of the Terran ship. There were no signs of life about the Throg plate as he approached. A quarter of its bulk was telescoped back into the rest, and surely none of the aliens could have survived such a smash, tough as they were reputed to be with those horny carapaces serving them in place ...

— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton