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(music) a gradual decrease in loudness
Answer for the clue "(music) a gradual decrease in loudness ", 11 letters:
decrescendo
Word definitions for decrescendo in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. gradually decreasing in volume [syn: diminuendo ] n. (music) a gradual decrease in loudness [syn: diminuendo ] v. grow quieter; "The music decrescendoes here" [ant: crescendo ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1806, from Italian decrescendo , from Latin decrescere (see decrease (v.)).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
becoming quieter gradually. n. (label en music) An instruction to play gradually more softly. v (label en music) To gradually become quieter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decrescendo \De`cres*cen"do\, a. & adv. [It.] (Mus.) With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.
Usage examples of decrescendo.
There are still fireworks in the sky, subsiding shockwaves, the memory of detonations, cheap gunfire, whistling decrescendo and the smoke of burnt guys.
He broke the contact, then blared a single note, high, with a decrescendo, tenderly, to prepare the world for the melancholy that lay in store.
The whine of the lift motors lowered in a deep decrescendo as the elevator slowed.
The turning of the seasons was a longer, slower rhythm, an almost imperceptible crescendo and decrescendo of vitality and dormancy, fecundity and death.