- 1[intransitive, transitive] telescope (something) to become shorter, or make something shorter, by sliding sections inside one another
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- 2[transitive] telescope something (into something) to reduce something so that it happens in less time Three episodes have been telescoped into a single program.
telescope
verbNAmE//ˈtɛləˌskoʊp//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they telescope he / she / it telescopes
past simple telescoped
-ing form telescoping
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