intransitive. Of the wind: to increase in force; to blow more strongly. Also transitive: †to cause (a storm) to develop (obsolete rare).

intransitive. Of the wind: to become fresh, to become stronger and colder; = freshen, v. 2. Also with up. Now rare.

intransitive. Of wind, a storm, etc.: to begin to blow; to increase in force or violence. Cf. to get up 3b at get, v. phrasal verbs 1.

intransitive. Of the wind: to become fresh; to become stronger and colder. Also with to, into something stronger; also with up.

intransitive. Of winds, etc.: To ‘rise.’ Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. Of fire, wind, the sea: to begin to show action or movement; to increase in force or violence.

intransitive. The proper verb naming the motion or action of the wind, or of an aerial current. Sometimes with subject it, as ‘it blows hard’, and…

intransitive. Of wind: To increase in strength or violence.

to breeze up (Nautical): (of a wind) to freshen, to become stronger: also impersonal. Of a noise: to rise on the breeze.

intransitive. Of the wind: to rise, increase.