Tel·e·scope v. i. [imp. & p. p. Telescoped p. pr. & vb. n. Telescoping ] To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another; to become compressed in the manner of a telescope, due to a collision or other force. [Recent]


 telescoped
      adj : 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"
            [syn: shortened]