cresc

Usage

• crescendo

  If something, such as a sound, is undergoing a crescendo, it is getting louder and louder or increasing in intensity and is about to reach its peak strength.

• accrue

  When something accrues, such as interest on money, it gradually increases or builds up over time.

• crescent

  resembling the new moon in shape

• decrescendo

  grow quieter

• excrescence

  something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings