A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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At Santa Croce, the world's largest Franciscan church, Giotto's frescoes bear witness to his innovations, including modern spatial techniques such as foreshortening and human figures imparted with a fleshy weightiness.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
What is now happening on the streets of Dresden, Leipzig and East Berlin is dramatically foreshortening that time.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2019
Lucy needs to make sense of her past, render it communicable, but she’s weary of the violent foreshortening on which narrative depends.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 30, 2019
In “Flatboatmen,” the recession is signaled by the extreme foreshortening of a man seen from behind, on his back, his hands locked behind his head, his body pointing straight into the picture.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2015
They kneeled between the frescoed walls, where some important-looking saints with blue haloes were standing on tiptoe to avoid foreshortening, and the gay paints of the stained-glass window poured upon their heads.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
