🇬🇧 Get up meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

We say the wind "gets up" when it begins to blow harder than before. At first the air might feel soft and gentle, but then it starts pushing more strongly on trees, flags, your hair, and anything that can move. This change from quiet air or a light breeze to a stronger wind is called the wind getting up.

The wind got up and tried to blow my snack away, but I was faster than the atmosphere.

When the wind got up, my hair got so wild it looked like it was trying to climb off my head and run away.

The wind got up and blew the teacher’s stack of papers around, creating a beautiful blizzard of math problems.

When the wind got up, the swings started moving all by themselves, like ghost children were having recess.

When the wind gets up at sea, real waves can grow huge—tall enough to hide whole ships for a moment, like ocean peekaboo.

On the beach we watch the wind get up, we watch it get up, tugging hair and sand. We watch the wind get up again as a hat lifts and sails creak. A kite will get up and fight its string; the boat will get up on a wave. Neighbors shut shutters; children laugh and shiver. Then the wind calms.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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