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Definition of Foreshorten

1. Verb. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements. "They won't foreshorten the story "; "The manuscript must be shortened"

2. Verb. Shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth.

Definition of Foreshorten

1. v. t. To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

Definition of Foreshorten

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

2. Verb. to abridge, reduce, contract ¹

3. Verb. to make shorter ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Foreshorten

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreshorten

foreshanks foreshape foresheet foresheets foreshew foreshewed foreshewing foreshewn foreshews foreship

foreships foreshock foreshocks foreshore foreshores foreshorten (current term) foreshortened foreshortening foreshortenings foreshortens

foreshot foreshow foreshowed foreshower foreshowers foreshowing foreshown foreshows foreside foresides

Literary usage of Foreshorten

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Pedestrian Tour of Thirteen Hundred and Forty-seven Miles Through Wales by Pedestres (1836)
"Why, the thing is," answered the other ; " we are so directly under it, that we foreshorten the distance considerably: and if we were five or six miles ..."

2. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"I will now turn the bough with its extremity towards us, and foreshorten it ... Even Titian does not foreshorten his boughs rightly. Of course he could, ..."

3. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1890)
"I will now turn the bough with its extremity towards us, and foreshorten it ... Even Titian does not foreshorten his boughs rightly. Of course he could, ..."

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