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telescoped |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Telescope \Tel"e*scope\, a. [imp. & p. p. {Telescoped}; p. pr & vb n. {Telescoping}.] To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another. [Recent] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: telescoped adj : 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" [syn: {shortened}]
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