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TELESCOPED

Dictionary entry overview: What does telescoped mean?

• TELESCOPED (adjective)
The adjective TELESCOPED has 1 sense:

1. shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another

Familiarity information: TELESCOPED used as an adjective is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• TELESCOPED (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another

Synonyms:

telescoped; shortened

Context examples:

a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars / years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream

Similar:

short ((primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length)

short (primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration)

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