Definitions for Crescendo

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Crescendo cre·scen·do

Spelling: [kri-shen-doh, -sen-doh; Italian kre- Crescendo is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 351 anagrams from letters in Crescendo (ccdeenors).

Definitions for Crescendo

noun

1. Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage:
2. a steady increase in force or intensity:
3. the climactic point or moment in such an increase; peak:

adjective, adverb

1. gradually increasing in force, volume, or loudness (opposed to decrescendo or diminuendo).

verb (used without object)

1. to grow in force or loudness.

Origin of Crescendo

1770-80; Italian: literally, growing Latin crēscendum, gerund of crēscere to grow; see crescent

Examples for Crescendo

Entertainment Weekly calls Fantasy “a fever dream with a crescendo around every corner.”

The sob stories are told without a full-blown, Titanic “My Heart Will Go On” crescendo.

The crescendo of motors as he ran, sobbing now in fear, for the cover of the jungle.

But that crescendo is well done; yes, that is most effective.

“It is only loyal to the Iranian leadership,” he concludes with a crescendo.

He felt the forces within him reach a crescendo at that moment.

This is the cry in Tea Party circles, and it is only going to crescendo as the debt deadline gets closer.

Then his ears caught a crescendo of the whispering that he had heard before.

Her voice had a crescendo of vehemence up to this last name.

The nearly half-decade movement to repeal and replace the medical device tax reached a crescendo on Tuesday.