telescope

noun

spyglass, glass;

informal scope.

verb

1 the five steel sections telescope into one another:

slide together, collapse.

2 there was a grinding crunch of metal as the front of the car was telescoped:

crush, concertina, squash, compact, compress.

3 less recent employment experience can be telescoped into a short sentence or two:

condense, shorten, reduce, abbreviate, abridge, summarize, precis, abstract, boil down, shrink, encapsulate;

cut, truncate, curtail, trim;

consolidate, conflate;

rare capsulize.

▷antonyms amplify.

telescope Oxford Dictionary of English