FORESHORTEN

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.
v.

Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.