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telescoped

Adjective telescoped has 1 sense

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"
Antonym: long (indirect, via short)

Verb telescope has 2 senses

telescope - crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"
--₁ is one way to squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
telescope - make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play"
--₂ is one way to digest, condense, concentrate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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