Fōre-shôrt'en, v. t.

(-shôrt'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. FORESHORTENED; p. pr. & vb. n. FORESHORTENING.] (Paint.) To shorten by representing in an oblique position; to represent as seen obliquely. An arm extended toward the spectator will be foreshortened in a painting.

Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.