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telescoped (encz) | telescoped, |
Telescoped (gcide) | Telescope \Tel"e*scope\, v. i. [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; to become compressed in the manner of a
telescope, due to a collision or other force. [Recent]
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telescoped (wn) | telescoped
adj 1: 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:
telescoped, shortened] |
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telescoped (encz) | telescoped, |
telescoped (wn) | telescoped
adj 1: 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:
telescoped, shortened] |
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