WordWeb Online

1. Crush together or collapse
   "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"
    
2. Make smaller or shorter
   "the novel was telescoped into a short play"

1. A magnifier of images of distant objects
   - scope

Derived forms: telescoping, telescopes, telescoped

See also: telescopic

Type of: concentrate, condense, crush, digest, distil [Brit], distill [N. Amer], magnifier, mash, squash, squeeze, squelch

Encyclopedia: Telescope