cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "a curtailed visit"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
with parts removed; "the drastically cut film"
cut short; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use"
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"
cut short; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use"
with parts removed
cut short
shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
