Crescendo

The noise had reached a crescendo.

The noise had reached its crescendo.

The overwhelming crescendo by the orchestra was exciting.

The crescendo angina persuaded the doctor to order a stress test.

A crescendo of fireworks at just after midnight Thursday marked the start of the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac.

Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.

Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.

With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.

The band crescendoed and then suddenly went silent.

And similarly, they are full of tricks: when the imagined stranger calls your name, the music crescendos romantically; when the video freezes on your laugh, it immediately desaturates the candid photo, making you look old-timey or famous or dead.