simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten

To abridge, reduce, contract. / To make shorter.

To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshorten

present participle of foreshorten

(art) A technique for creating the appearance that the object of a drawing is extending into space by shortening the lines with which that object is drawn.

Someone or something that foreshortens.

plural of foreshortener

plural of foreshortening