Usually means: Shortened because of perspective angle.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word foreshortened:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. foreshortened: Merriam-Webster
  2. foreshortened: Collins English Dictionary
  3. foreshortened: Vocabulary.com
  4. foreshortened: Wordnik
  5. foreshortened: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. foreshortened: Wiktionary
  7. foreshortened: Dictionary.com
  8. Foreshortened: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. foreshortened: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. foreshortened: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

(Note: See foreshorten as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
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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