telescoped

Meanings

Verb

• crush together or collapse
  • "In the accident, the cars telescoped"
• make smaller or shorter
  • "the novel was telescoped into a short play"
• simple past and past participle of telescope

Adjective Satellite

• 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, telescope