Converse of object

• reach: The Ripper was, by now, reaching a crescendo of violence.

• rise: Rising crescendo Milligan: ( vicar ) It started in Brighton - 1898 - the year of the great Edison Bell.

• build: I'd got to the point where I'd got a 20-minute, 40-minute, hour-long set that built crescendo and got laughs.

• create: The writer makes the reader wait for this, the relative clauses in commas ( analyzed above ) creating a crescendo.

• deafen: A banner rolls down an office block and the cheering reaches a deafening crescendo.

• become: The page of history becomes a long crescendo of battle.

Preposition: at

• end: Emerson continues to add a variety of keyboard sounds until the crescendo at the end.

Adjective modifier

• gradual: This gives way to a quieter passage but which leads to the most thrilling gradual crescendo.

• dramatic: Being an Italian opera, the work was imbued with great passion, each act rising to a dramatic crescendo.

• final: That is, until the final crescendo, which ties up all the loose ends of the earlier exploits.

• great: A roar rose like in a great crescendo from the crowd.

• emotional: Its ending, as ambulancewoman Kay discovers the fate of her lover Helen, is my personal emotional crescendo.

Modifies a noun

• pain: Few injuries show crescendo pain apart from a stress fracture.

• effect: The crescendo effect was simply amazing and the crowd loved it.

Noun used with modifier

• guitar: It sounded fantastic and came to an end with a thrashing guitar crescendo.

Preposition: of

• noise: A big gong bursts into a crescendo of noise.

• violence: The Ripper was, by now, reaching a crescendo of violence.