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")

Antonyms of adj telescoped

1 sense of telescoped

Sense 1
telescoped, shortened -- (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")

INDIRECT (VIA short) -> long -- (primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long")

Similarity of adj telescoped

1 sense of telescoped

Sense 1
telescoped, shortened -- (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")
       => short (vs. long) -- ((primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss")