Definitions for crescendos

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crescendos cre·scen·do

Spelling: [kri-shen-doh, -sen-doh; Italian kre- Crescendos is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 428 anagrams from letters in crescendos (ccdeenorss).

Definitions for crescendos

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 crescendos

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

Examples for crescendos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.