portray or show (an object or view) as closer than it is or as having less depth or distance, as an effect of perspective or the angle of vision

seen from the road, the mountain is greatly foreshortened

prematurely or dramatically shorten or reduce (something) in time or scale

our experience is that it is usually a mistake to try to foreshorten the process

Leicestershire won by 133 runs in a foreshortened contest