Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Foreshorten \Fore*short"en\, v. t.
   1. (Fine Art) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended
      in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to
      shorten by drawing in perspective.

   2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.

            Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened
            in the tract of time.                 --Tennyson.

Source : WordNet®

foreshorten
     v 1: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The
          manuscript must be shortened" [syn: {abridge}, {abbreviate},
           {shorten}, {cut}, {contract}, {reduce}] [ant: {elaborate}]
     2: shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of
        depth