1.  foreshorten(v = verb.change) abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

2.  foreshorten(v = verb.change) Array - shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth; Array
is one way to shorten
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective. [1913 Webster]

2.  Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. [1913 Webster]
"Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie
Foreshortened in the tract of time." [1913 Webster]

foreshorten, v.tr. show or portray (an object) with the apparent shortening due to visual perspective.