01 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.
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To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.(Fine Art)
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Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.“Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time.” — Tennyson.