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View definitions for cresting

cresting

verb as in peak

verb as in top

verb as in crown

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Will it be totally sanitized and full of glass-box condos or is the wave cresting and the tide about to run out?

When my siblings and I would see the planes cresting the mountains, we would line up, hoping they would let us board.

With bacon-mania cresting, the question must be asked: What were we thinking?

Beyond, the hill went upward suddenly with the curve of a cresting wave.

Cresting a rise about three miles distant I made out a dark mass moving forward along our track, and that at a rapid rate.

Three mornings they put out and fought it and the cresting seas it drove that turned to ice as they fell in-board.

The trail ran along a narrow ledge cresting an abrupt but bushy steep.

The Mission down below, in the dell, appeared in a bluish mist, only the cathedral cresting the hill.

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On this page you'll find 128 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cresting, such as: climax, crest, culminate, be at height, come to a head, and reach the top.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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