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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshorten.

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Examples

  • This perspective, as any art student will tell you, "foreshortens" the court.

    NAACHGAANA 2009

  • This perspective, as any art student will tell you, "foreshortens" the court.

    Forty Deuce 2008

  • The angle of the photo foreshortens his spread a bit; he was a little wider than it appears here.

    Hurteau: Help Me Score This Buck 2009

  • The angle of the photo foreshortens his spread a bit; he was a little wider than it appears here.

    Hurteau: Help Me Score This Buck 2009

  • The market often foreshortens its point of view and discounts less.

    Girls In Summer Dresses Martin T. Sosnoff 2006

  • I realized why Jillian Barberie looks somewhat strange in those longer, or wrap-around dresses -- the lens on the camera foreshortens her figure, especially the legs, since it shoots her from hair to heels as she does the weather.

    Archive 2003-11-30 Michael Evans 2003

  • I realized why Jillian Barberie looks somewhat strange in those longer, or wrap-around dresses -- the lens on the camera foreshortens her figure, especially the legs, since it shoots her from hair to heels as she does the weather.

    Archive 2003-12-01 Michael Evans 2003

  • I realized why Jillian Barberie looks somewhat strange in those longer, or wrap-around dresses -- the lens on the camera foreshortens her figure, especially the legs, since it shoots her from hair to heels as she does the weather.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2003

  • "It foreshortens the center of the image and distorts the periphery so you can cover one hundred and eighty degrees of vision."

    Call to Treason Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2004

  • "" Now this experience of the thieves condenses and foreshortens the whole of human existence, "" Jane continued, bending closer so that Mary could hear her without her raising her voice.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

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