English-Spanish translations for crescendo

• crescendo
  Y lo que sí está claro es que, si no se pone freno a este fenómeno, seguirá in crescendo como hasta ahora y, desde luego, no va a parar ni se va a atenuar. 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