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/kɹɪˈʃɛn.dəʊ/ · noun
(music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin..
Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.
Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.
With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.
The band crescendoed and then suddenly went silent.
And similarly, they are full of tricks: when the imagined stranger calls your name, the music crescendos romantically; when the video freezes on your laugh, it immediately desaturates the candid photo, making you look old-timey or famous or dead.
Use crescendo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Crescendo means (music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin..
Common synonyms include amplification, ascension, boost, gain.
Possible antonyms include decrescendo, diminuendo, climax, conclusion.
Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.
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