"telescoped" in the verb sense
1. telescope
crush together or collapse
"In the accident, the cars telescoped"
"my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"
2. telescope
make smaller or shorter
"the novel was telescoped into a short play"
"telescoped" in the adjective sense
1. telescoped, shortened
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"
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