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 and divides as tele-sco-ped under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.