Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun telescope

1 sense of telescope

Sense 1
telescope, scope -- (a magnifier of images of distant objects)
       => magnifier -- (a scientific instrument that magnifies an image)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb telescope

2 senses of telescope

Sense 1
telescope -- (crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack")
       => squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze -- (to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon")

Sense 2
telescope -- (make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play")
       => digest, condense, concentrate -- (make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary")