telescoped

Definitions of telescoped
  1. adjective
    shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
    “a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars”
    “years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream”
    synonyms: shortened
    short
    (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
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