Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, same as
morendo .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mus.) Growing gradually fainter and softer; dying away; morendo.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb music Fading away.
Etymologies
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Borrowing from Italian smorzando.
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Examples
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The hubbub mounts, then, in an ever softening smorzando, peels away like sonar panty hose when an elderly man, a senior vice-president at Merrill Lynch, climbs precariously atop a table and croaks the announcement, in a hoarse old voice, that the Nikkei has opened sharply lower, yet not as low as many had feared, and that it shows signs of stabilizing.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994
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