crest
verb/krest/
/krest/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they crest | /krest/ /krest/ |
| he / she / it crests | /krests/ /krests/ |
| past simple crested | /ˈkrestɪd/ /ˈkrestɪd/ |
| past participle crested | /ˈkrestɪd/ /ˈkrestɪd/ |
| -ing form cresting | /ˈkrestɪŋ/ /ˈkrestɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] crest something (formal) to reach the top of a hill, mountain or wave
- He slowed the pace as they crested the ridge.
- The ship crested a wave and then fell twenty feet or more.
- [intransitive] (North American English) (of a flood, wave, etc.) to reach its highest level before it falls again
- (figurative) The level of debt crested at a massive $290 billion in 2009.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French creste, from Latin crista ‘tuft, plume’.
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