foreshorten

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: fore=short=en

CIDE DICTIONARY

foreshorten, v. t. 

•  To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.  [1913 Webster]

  "Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie
  Foreshortened in the tract of time."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

foreshorten, v.tr. show or portray (an object) with the apparent shortening due to visual perspective.

THESAURUS

foreshorten

abbreviate, abridge, abstract, bob, boil down, capsulize, clip, compress, condense, contract, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, dock, elide, epitomize, mow, nip, poll, pollard, prune, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, retrench, shave, shear, shorten, snub, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take in, telescope, trim, truncate