English-French translations for crescendo

• crescendo
  Il est clair est que si ce phénomène n'est pas enrayé, il continuera crescendo tel qu'il l'a fait jusqu'à présent, et bien sûr, il ne va ni s'arrêter ni s'améliorer. And what is clear is that, if this phenomenon is not stopped, it will continue in crescendo as it has done so far, and of course it is not going to stop or improve.

Definition of crescendo

• An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left , by musicians called a hairpin
• The climax of a gradual increase
• To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo
• Gradually increasing in force or loudness

Examples

• Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.
• Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.
• The band crescendoed and then suddenly went silent.

Related words

• crescent
• accrescent
• accrescence
• excrescence
• decrescendo
• concrescence
• decrescent
• increscent
• crescentia