foreshorten
IPA: fɔrʃˈɔrtʌn
verb
- To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.
- To abridge, reduce, contract.
- To make shorter.
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Examples of "foreshorten" in Sentences
- Most photos of it are from underneath looking up, which foreshorten the image.
- Hopefully the leader will not cut off the amendments or foreshorten our ability to offer amendments.
- And you can go foreshorten yourself as much as you want, not a one of you naysayers could *ever* get a picture that looked like that from a real humanoid life form.
- Profound depression and vegetative symptoms result from realizing nothing that individuals do matters and that there is no way to end, foreshorten or even know the duration of their suffering.
- Oh, yes, Speaker Pelosi, it was more important to foreshorten debate so that the "troops" could go home on recess than to more fully consider, and possibly fashion, an improved piece of legislation.
- His left foot is on the ground, behind his right which is a little foreshorten because it's angled out towards us because he's swinging it wide to kick the ball. the only photoshop was to extract him from the background.
- And instead of medical conditions that if untreated would likely foreshorten his life considerably, it was a medical condition that would likely produce death in relatively short order if untreated, e.g., serious cardiac arrhythmia predisposing to sudden death if not treated, maybe with a pacemaker?
- The salesman spent the few minutes alone alternately pushing his loose tooth around, watching his silk shirt stick to different parts of his upper body and straining to hear some Spanish words, coming from the other room, among the half-words, part-sentences adopted by a people who try to simplify and foreshorten everything in their lives, especially their language.
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