telescoped

1. 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”

   Synonymsshortened

   Similarshort

Questions about telescoped

What does telescoped mean?

telescoped means "shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another".

How many syllables are in telescoped?

telescoped has 3 syllables: tele-sco-ped. The stress falls on "tele".

What is another word for telescoped?

Close synonyms include shortened. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is telescoped a common word?

telescoped is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.