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decrescendo
OXFORD DICTIONARY
decrescendo, adv., adj., & n. (pl. -os) = DIMINUENDO.
Etymology
It., part. of decrescere DECREASE
THESAURUS
decrescendo
a cappella, abbandono, accrescendo, adagietto, adagio, affettuoso, agilmente, agitato, allegretto, allegro, amabile, amoroso, andante, andantino, appassionatamente, appassionato, barely audible, brillante, capriccioso, catabasis, collapse, con affetto, con agilita, con agitazione, con amore, contractive, crash, crescendo, deceleration, declension, decline, decline and fall, declining, decreasing, decreasingly, decrescent, deliquescent, dim, diminishing, diminishingly, diminuendo, dimness, distant, dive, dolce, downtrend, downturn, drop, dwindling, ebb, ever less, faint, faint-voiced, faintness, fall, feeble, feebleness, flatness, forte, fortissimo, gentle, gentleness, half-heard, indistinct, indistinctness, lamentabile, languishing, lapse, larghetto, larghissimo, largo, legato, leggiero, less, less and less, lessening, low, lowness, marcando, morendo, murmured, on the wane, parlando, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, plunge, prestissimo, presto, rallentando, reductive, remission, retreat, ritardando, ritenuto, scarcely heard, scherzando, scherzo, scherzoso, slowdown, slump, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, softness, sordo, sotto voce, spiccato, staccato, stretto, subaudibility, subaudible, subdued, subduedness, subsidence, subsiding, tremolando, tremoloso, trillando, unclear, unclearness, wane, waning, weak, weak-voiced, weakness, whisperedFor further exploring for "decrescendo" in Webster Dictionary Online