Usually means: Reduce length visually through perspective.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word foreshorten:

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  1. foreshorten: Merriam-Webster
  2. foreshorten: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foreshorten: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. foreshorten: Collins English Dictionary
  5. foreshorten: Vocabulary.com
  6. foreshorten: Wordnik
  7. foreshorten: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. foreshorten: Wiktionary
  9. foreshorten: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. foreshorten: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. foreshorten: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Foreshorten, foreshorten: Dictionary.com
  13. Foreshorten: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. foreshorten: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. foreshorten: Rhymezone
  16. Foreshorten: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. foreshorten: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. foreshorten: FreeDictionary.org
  19. foreshorten: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. foreshorten: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foreshorten: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foreshorten: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foreshorten: Medical dictionary

(Note: See foreshortened as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (foreshorten)

verb:  To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.
verb:  To abridge, reduce, contract.
verb:  To make shorter.

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