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
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
Finally, in a full-page illustration with dramatic foreshortening, Spider-Man lifts the machinery off and extricates himself: “From out of the pain — from out of the agony — comes triumph!”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2018
Older now, the musketeers have to deal with their physical frailty and the difficult compromises that ageing brings, not least the foreshortening of their horizons.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2016
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
