foreshorten
- v reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- v shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth
- Academic pressure, drugs and alcohol in the schools, peer pressure and sexually explicit media are all conspiring to foreshorten childhood, with consequences that are still not .
- The requirements of office foreshorten the opportunities for learning, argues Kissinger, "Presidents learn how to get on the nightly news to influence people and how to make .
- If there were reasons to foreshorten the mission, however, they were apparently not medical.