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Crescendo

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Noun

1. crescendo

(music) a gradual increase in loudness

Verb

2. crescendo

grow louder

Example Sentences:
'The music crescendoes here'

Adjective

3. crescendo

gradually increasing in volume

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Crescendo

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noun plural -dos or -di (-dɪ)
1. music
a. 
a gradual increase in loudness or the musical direction or symbol indicating this
. Abbreviation: cresc. Symbol: ()in written over the music affected ≺
b. 
(as modifier)
a crescendo passage
2. 
a gradual increase in loudness or intensity
the rising crescendo of a song
3. 
a peak of noise or intensity
the cheers reached a crescendo
verb -does, -doing or -doed
4. (intransitive)
to increase in loudness or force
adverb
5. 
with a crescendo

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Crescendo

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adjective, adverb
1. 
with a gradual increase in loudness
often used as a musical direction, indicated by the sign 57380
nounWord forms: plural creˈscenˌdos
2.  Music
a. 
a gradual increase in loudness
b. 
a crescendo passage
3. 
any gradual increase in force, intensity, etc.
verb intransitiveWord forms: creˈscenˌdoed or creˈscenˌdoing
4. 
to increase gradually in loudness or intensity

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Crescendo

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n. pl. cres·cen·dos or cres·cen·di (-dē)
1. Abbr. cr. Music
a. A gradual increase in the volume or intensity of sound in a passage.
b. A passage played with a gradual increase in volume or intensity.
2.
a. A steady increase in intensity or force: "insisted [that] all paragraphs ... should be structured as a crescendo rising to a climactic last sentence" (Henry A. Kissinger).
b. Usage Problem The climactic point or moment after such a progression: "The attacks ... began in December ... and reached a crescendo during [the president's] September visit" (Foreign Affairs).
adj.
Gradually increasing in volume, force, or intensity.
adv.
Music
With a crescendo.
intr.v. cres·cen·doed, cres·cen·do·ing, cres·cen·does
To build up to or reach a point of great intensity, force, or volume: "The designer-name craze crescendoed in the mid-seventies" (Bernice Kanner).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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