foreshortenverb [ T ]
uk/fɔːˈʃɔː.tən/us/fɔːrˈʃɔːr.t̬ən/to reduce something or make it shorter:
Smoking was certainly one of the factors that foreshortened his life.
specialized art to draw, paint, or photograph people or objects to make them seem smaller or closer together than they really are
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Becoming and making smaller or less
- a nip (here) and a tuck (there) idiom
- attenuate
- axe
- bite
- bite into sth
- dive
- drain
- let up
- lower
- make a hole in sth idiom
- miniaturization
- miniaturize
- minimize
- shrink
- slash
- strip sth away
- stripped down
- subside
- tail off
- take a tumble idiom
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foreshortened
adjective uk/fɔːˈʃɔː.tənd/us/fɔːrˈʃɔːr.t̬ənd/