1. (

• telescope

) crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack" ;

2. (

• telescope ,

) make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play" ;

1. (

• 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" ;