Difference between Shorten and Foreshorten

SHORTEN vs FORESHORTEN: VERB

Shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
To abridge, reduce, contract
To make shorter
To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.

To make short or shorter.
To reduce in force, efficacy, or intensity.
To add shortening to (dough) so as to make flaky.
To take in (a sail) so that less canvas is exposed to the wind, thereby reducing speed.
To become short or shorter.

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time
To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
To take in the slack of it.
To reduce sail by taking it in.
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract

To shorten the lines of (an object) in a drawing or other representation so as to produce an illusion of projection or extension in space.
To reduce the length of; curtail or abridge.
To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.

To make short or friable, as pastry with butter or lard.
To cause to come short or fail.
To deprive.
To check; confine; restrain.
To pronounce or measure as short: as, to shorten a vowel or syllable.
Figuratively, to make inefficient or incapable. Compare short-armed.
To make appear short: as, pleasant companionship shortens a journey; a concave mirror shortens the face.
To make short or shorter; abridge; curtail: as, to shorten hours of work; to shorten the skirt of a dress.
To come short; fail.
To make anything short: used with in in the nautical phrase to shorten in on the cable, to heave in short or shorter.
To become short or shorter; contract; diminish in length: as, ropes shorten when wet.
To take in; contract; lessen in extent or amount: as, to shorten sail; to shorten an allowance.

In perspective, to represent (a figure) in such a manner as to convey to the mind the impression of the entire length of the object, though only a part of this length is actually shown, as when the object is viewed in an oblique direction; represent (any object, as an arm, a weapon, the branch of a tree) as pointing more or less directly toward the spectator standing in front of the picture, or as in a plane more or less nearly parallel to the spectator's line of sight.

Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Bowdlerize, Bowdlerise, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Ramify, Confabulate, Beetling, Retrogress, Cogitate, Contemplate, Ossify, Truncate, Constrain, Contract, Abridge, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce, Shorten

Minimize, Reducing, Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Palliated, Temporize, Ponder, Ramify, Beetling, Contemplate, Ossify, Truncate, Constrain, Contract, Abridge, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce, Shorten

We must never let form triumph over substance or let methodology foreshorten our vision and imagination.
Specifically, their food would be nutraloafa tasteless patty, nutritious enough not to foreshorten their lives.
Excessive investigation into a policy problem can foreshorten the time available for inventing possible responses.