What is the meaning of telescoped?

verb

• Crush together or collapse.
  • usage: "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"
  • synonyms: telescope
• Make smaller or shorter.
  • usage: "the novel was telescoped into a short play"
  • synonyms: telescope

adjective

• Shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another.
  • usage: "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"
  • synonyms: shortened