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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Foreshorten \Fore*short"en\, 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. --Tennyson. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: foreshorten v 1: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" [syn: {abridge}, {abbreviate}, {shorten}, {cut}, {contract}, {reduce}] 2: shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth
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