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foreshorten

verb

Etymology

From fore- + shorten.

  1. inherited from *skurtōną✻ — “to shorten”
  2. inherited from sċortian — “to become short”
  3. inherited from schorten — “to make short, shorten”
  4. inherited from shortnen
  5. prefixed as foreshorten — “fore + shorten”

Definitions

  1. To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is…

    To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.

  2. To abridge, reduce, contract.

  3. To make shorter.

    • The Californian duo looked and sounded like the kind of band you would have seen being excitedly introduced on The Old Grey Whistle Test in early 1976, only to find their career suddenly foreshortened by the arrival of punk

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for foreshorten. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA