n. 1 spyglass, Old-fashioned glass; refracting telescope, reflecting telescope, radio telescope Through the telescope, he could just discern the American coastline
v. 2 shorten, compress, abbreviate, curtail, condense, summarize, précis, digest, tighten (up), boil down, abridge, truncate, abstract Telescope the report into two columns for page 2 3 concertina, squash, crush The first three carriages of the train were telescoped in the crash