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foreshortenedfore‧short‧ened /fɔːˈʃɔːtnd $ fɔːrˈʃɔːrtnd/ adjective formal  - Delaney focussed in on the waves piling up tightly one behind the other, like a huge wall in the foreshortened view.
- Seen from the road, the mountain is greatly foreshortened and its true proportions are best appreciated from a distance.
- The logo, a life study of a foreshortened figure, represents an ideal of development.
- Viewed from so high up, their bodies were foreshortened and hidden by the faces in front.
- Writer and educator George Leonard has described some of the dangers of a foreshortened perspective on time.
1objects, places etc that are foreshortened appear to be smaller, shorter, or closer together than they really are: Viewed from high up, their bodies were oddly foreshortened.2ended before the usual or expected time: a foreshortened career—foreshorten verb [transitive] |