Meaning

1 senses

  1. To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo.

    The band crescendoed and then suddenly went silent.

More definitions
  • grow louder

Examples

4 sentences

  1. The noise had reached a crescendo.

    deDer Lärm hatte seinen Höhepunkt erreicht. — Tamy

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  2. The noise had reached its crescendo.

    deDer Lärm hatte seinen Höhepunkt erreicht. — Tamy

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  3. The overwhelming crescendo by the orchestra was exciting.

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  4. The crescendo angina persuaded the doctor to order a stress test.

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Origin

Borrowed from Italian crescendo, gerund of crescere (“to grow, to increase”).

Borrowed from Italian crescendo, gerund of crescere (“to grow, to increase”).

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Forms

crescendoes, crescendoing, crescendoed, crescendoed
Base formcrescendo · to crescendo
3rd person singularcrescendoes
Present participlecrescendoing
Past simplecrescendoed
Past participlecrescendoed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycrescendo
he, she, itcrescendoes

Past simpleLesson

all personscrescendoed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave crescendoed
he, she, ithas crescendoed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill crescendo

Antonyms

1 antonyms
decrescendo

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
crematoriumcreolecrepecrescentcrest

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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