adjective
shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
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- a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars
- years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream
noun
a magnifier of images of distant objects
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verb
crush together or collapse
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- In the accident, the cars telescoped
- my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack
verb
make smaller or shorter
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- the novel was telescoped into a short play