Meaning : Cut short in duration.
Example :
The abbreviated speech.
Her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking.
An unsatisfactory truncated conversation.
Synonyms : abbreviated, truncated
Meaning : Shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another.
Example :
A miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars.
Years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream.
Synonyms : telescoped