1. A magnifier of images of distant objects
   "The astronomer peered through the telescope to observe the stars";
   - scope [informal]

1. Crush together or collapse
   "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"
    
2. Make smaller or shorter
   "the novel was telescoped into a short play"

Derived forms: telescoping, telescoped, telescopes

Type of: concentrate, condense, crush, digest, distil [Brit], distill [N. Amer], magnifier, mash, squash, squeeze, squelch, squidge [informal], squish [informal]

Encyclopedia: Telescope, extremely large