Crossword-Solution: FORESHORTEN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Foreshorten | v. t. | To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective. |
| Foreshorten | v. t. | Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “FORESHORTEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Abbreviate, for a golfer? | 1 answer |
| Give the illusion of three dimensions | 1 answer |
| PORTRAY object with the apparent shortening due to visual perspective | 1 answer |
| PORTRAY with the apparent shortening due to visual perspective | 1 answer |
| SHOW object with the apparent shortening due to visual perspective | 1 answer |
| SHOW with the apparent shortening due to visual perspective | 1 answer |
| raise the hem | 1 answer |
| shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | 1 answer |
| make smaller | 11 answers |
| epitomise | 38 answers |
| Shrink | 48 answers |
| Portray | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with FORESHORTEN (5)
That is, just before the moment of her mother's entrance, Alice had been playing with the mirror's reflections--posturing her arms and her expressions, clasping her hands behind her neck, and tilting back her head to foreshorten the face in a tableau conceived to represent sauciness, then one of smiling weariness, then one of scornful toleration, and all very piquant; but as the door opened she hurriedly resumed the practical, and occupied her hands in the arrangement of her plentiful brownish hair.
You foreshorten as though you never used the model, and you’ve caught Kami’s pasty way of dealing with flesh in shadow.
Beneath her, Peter Lombard, _Technical Points_.--It is curious that while the instinct of perspective was not strong enough to enable any painter at this time to foreshorten a foot, it yet suggested to them the expression of elevation by raising the horizon.
Again, the savage knows that an animal has two sides; both, he thinks, should be represented, but he cannot foreshorten, and he finds the profile view easiest to draw.
And so they would always have remained in crude experience, if no cumulative reflection, no art, and no science had come to dominate and foreshorten that equable flow of substance, arresting it ideally in behalf of some rational interest.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NY Sun, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2004–2015).