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81cheer — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, deafening, great, hearty, huge, loud, rousing ▪ The players were greeted by rousing cheers …
82crescendo — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ deafening VERB + CRESCENDO ▪ reach, rise to ▪ The music reached a deafening crescendo …
83noise — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ deafening, loud ▪ awful, horrible, terrible ▪ faint, low, slight, small …
84silence — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 quietness ADJECTIVE ▪ lengthy, long, prolonged ▪ brief, momentary, a moment s, short ▪ There was a mome …
85crescendo — n. 1) to reach a crescendo 2) a deafening crescendo * * * [krɪ ʃendəʊ] a deafening crescendo to reach a crescendo …
86explosion — n. 1) to set off, touch off an explosion 2) a deafening, loud explosion 3) a population explosion * * * [ɪk spləʊʒ(ə)n] loud explosion touch off an explosion a deafening a population explosion to set off …
87noise — n. 1) to make, produce (a) noise 2) to cut (AE; colloq.), cut down on, reduce the noise 3) constant, persistent; deafening; loud; shrill noise 4) a noise abates, dies down * * * [nɔɪz] cut down on deafening dies down loud persistent produce (a …
88thunder — n. 1) thunder booms, reverberates, roars, rolls 2) a clap, peal, roll of thunder (a deafening clap of thunder) 3) (misc.) to steal smb. s thunder ( to do first what smb. else was going to do ) * * * [ θʌndə] peal reverberates roars rolls roll of… …
89earsplitting — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. See loudness. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. deafening, loud, shrill. ANT.: muted, quiet III (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Marked by extremely high volume and intensity of sound: blaring,… …
90piercing — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sharp, penetrating, keen, acute; discerning; cutting, biting; painful, affecting, chilling; high, shrill. See cold, feeling. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Shrill] Syn. deafening, earsplitting, sharp;… …
