telescoped

Verb

telescope (third-person singular simple present telescopes, present participle telescoping, simple past and past participle telescoped)

1. (ambitransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
   • Hugo rose to his full height, which was triple that of Grunt Buggely’s, even without his neck telescoped.1988, Barry B[rookes] Longyear, Naked Came the Robot, New York, N.Y.: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 155
2. (ambitransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
3. (intransitive) To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
4. (ambitransitive) To collapse, via cancellation.

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