The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - telescope n.

1) spyglass, Old-fashioned glass; refracting telescope, reflecting telescope, radio telescope: Through the telescope, he could just discern the American coastline. --v. 2) shorten, compress, abbreviate, curtail, condense, summarize, pr‚cis, digest, tighten (up) , boil down, abridge, truncate, abstract: Telescope the report into two columns for page 2. 3) concertina, squash, crush: The first three carriages of the train were telescoped in the crash.