crescendo
The build-up to the Olympic Games is reaching a crescendo of excitement.
Questions about his judgment have reached a crescendo.
The wave of enthusiasm for investment in new hi-tech companies reached its crescendo in the spring.
The roar and blast of the artillery seemed to reach a crescendo.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Increasing and intensifying
accretion
accumulate
accumulative
accumulatively
add fuel to the fireidiom
blaze
fade
go into orbitidiom
go up
growing
growingly
heighten
inflation
mushroom
ramp something up
ratchet something up/down
re-escalate
re-escalation
redouble
stake

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