Synonyms for crescendo
krɪˈʃɛn doʊ, -ˈsɛn doʊcrescen·do

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1. crescendonoun

   The climax of a gradual increase.

   Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.

   Antonyms:
   conclusion, climax

2. crescendonoun

   Antonyms:
   diminuendo, decrescendo

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1. crescendoadjective

   (music) a gradual increase in loudness

   Antonyms:
   decreasing, decrescendo

2. crescendoverb

   gradually increasing in volume

   Antonyms:
   decreasing, decrescendo

3. crescendoverb

   grow louder

   "The music crescendoes here"

   Antonyms:
   decreasing, decrescendo

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1. Art Hogan:

   A crescendo of bad news can move an economy driven by the consumer, is this something that causes people to put off buying that sweater, fridge or car ?

2. Prosecutor Creighton Waters:

   The pressures on this man were unbearable and they were reaching a crescendo the day his wife and son were murdered by him.

3. Robert Muggah:

   Then we had the Rocinha effect, pushback against the program began in 2013 and reached a crescendo with the killing of Amarildo.

4. Jeffrey Gundlach:

   I still believe that there is a danger of repeat of a Treasury meltup that 2014 did end up bringing, particularly into the crescendo of October 15, if something can't go up, it has to go down. Yields can't seem to go up. They might go down. And if they go down any amount again, if the 10-year goes below 2 percent, even below 2.20 percent, that's the line in the sand I am talking about.

5. House Speaker Paul Ryan:

   I think all of the anxiety is coming to a crescendo in this country. You have to understand -- we're the body of government closest to the people. We're up every other year and there's just a lot of anxiety that's out there.