Crescendo is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CRESCENDO in dictionary:

VERB:
• to come to a crescendo
• increase in loudness or intensity
• With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.
• grow louder
• increase in loudness or force
NOUN:
• (Italian) a gradual increase in loudness
• a gradual increase in loudness in a piece of music
• a passage of music marked or performed with a crescendo.
• the loudest point reached in a gradually increasing sound
• a progressive increase in intensity
• the most intense point reached
• gradual increase in loudness, esp in music
• A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.
• A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.
• (music) a gradual increase in loudness
ADVERB:
• with a gradual increase in loudness
• gradually getting louder
ADJECTIVE:
• gradually increasing in volume
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a gradual increase; a gradual increase in volume of a musical passage; the peak of a gradual increas; climax

Words related to CRESCENDO

crescendi14 crescendoed17 crescendoes16 crescendoing18 crescendos15

Words that contain CRESCENDO

crescendos15 crescendoed17 crescendoes16 decrescendo17 crescendoing18 decrescendos18

How to use CRESCENDO in a sentence

• Shall we give our readers an idea of this crescendo of pretensions? We will content ourselves with going back to the last Mexican war and to the Wilmot proviso.
• Outside, the fierce wind, rising in a crescendo shriek, howled around the eaves.
• An opposing chief replied to him, and gradually a heated altercation arose, the abuse rising on a crescendo scale for ten or fifteen minutes.
• The slow, thrilling crescendo of May had lifted the heart up to a devout certainty of June.
• The lights of a town suburb were flitting past the windows, and the monotonous song of the tires was drowned in the shrill crescendo of the brakes.
• As their voices approached a crescendo they danced with increasing hysteria.
• Butt, the great advocate, taking care that it should all be consecutive and clear with a due crescendo of interest.
• I worked at last to a crescendo of sound that gave Labarthe his cue.
• The murmur increased in a sonorous crescendo until the full cadence of the mighty waterfall burst on my ears.
• His approach was a crescendo chord of a hundred harmonies.
• If the main group who had trailed out with torches had been anywhere nearby, that crescendo of noise must have recalled them in hot haste.
• To be brutally frank, indeed, the telling seemed to me wholly lacking in precisely the qualities of dash and crescendo required to carry off such a tale.
• Chance writes no such intelligent dramas, with orderly beginning, crescendo, and climax.
• We left together on foot, my man still maintaining a crescendo conversation with the inn people till well away.
• The gong sounded in a terrific crescendo from the hall.
• As the report of the shot reverberated back from the mountains, it was followed by a perfect crescendo of wolf howls.
• But there at once he finds the second phase in a crescendo of floral colors.
• The evening was like a crescendo, admirably devised and carried out.
• Whereas the other one, and ones like it, felt like the impact of being smacked against some type of a wall, this one was a gradual crescendo of being smashed into the abyss.
• The important thing to be remembered about the lighting is the crescendo of light which occurs as the play runs its course.

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