Foreshortened is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FORESHORTENED in dictionary:

VERB:
• FORESHORTEN, to shorten by proportionately contracting in the direction of depth so that an illusion of projection or extension in space is obtained
• portray or show (an object or view) as closer than it really is or as having less depth or distance, as an effect of perspective or the angle of vision
• prematurely or dramatically shorten or reduce (something) in time or scale

Words related to FORESHORTENED

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How to use FORESHORTENED in a sentence

• Still Diana bent over Endymion cruelly foreshortened in his sleep, beyond the possibility of a waking return to human proportions.
• The history of the Saadians is a foreshortened record of that of all their predecessors.
• Her face, foreshortened by her downward regard, seemed infantile.
• The ways of Destiny! The happenings of the last few months, foreshortened in perspective, seemed to have almost a pantomimic rapidity.
• I never have been so surprised in my life as I was when I let out the first blow and saw him lying on his back, with a bloody nose and his face exceedingly foreshortened.
• The absence of all variety in form or light and shade, and the dull lines of his foreshortened front, made it hard to realise that he stood some five thousand feet above us.
• Lucy, looking at his up-turned, foreshortened, cleanly-modelled face, thought with half of her mind what a perfect thing it was.
• The open space seemed longer while it was being traversed, but rapidly foreshortened after it was left for the filled space.
• On the ground, between the legs of the towering beast, lay the foreshortened figure of a man, the head in the extreme foreground, the arms flung wide to right and left.
• And beneath lay the man, his foreshortened face at the focal point in the centre, his arms outstretched towards the sides of the picture.
• The most speculative genius is often at a loss to conjecture the species of a human being foreshortened by a young lady.
• The big circular screen was lit, showing the whole Company Reservation, with the surrounding countryside foreshortened by perspective to the distant lights of Skilk.
• He could see, foreshortened, the tear-stained, dolorous face of the woman stretched out, and with her head thrown over the back of the seat.
• Thence we had a view of some foreshortened suburbs at our feet, and beyond of a green, open, and irregular country rising towards the Pentland Hills.
• The incident of the bare feet may be regarded as a fortuitous coincidence, since Miss Angus saw the young lady foreshortened, and could not describe her face.
• In both cases the facts are automatically foreshortened and made to cluster, as it were providentially, about a chosen interest.
• Those on one side of this line are seen in foreshortened perspective.
• The future is foreshortened, and great gulfs of centuries are passed over, as, standing on a plain, we see it as continuous, though it may really be cleft by deep ravines.

Similar words containing SHORTEN without suffix ed and without prefix fore

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