'shake up' definitions:
Definition of 'shake up'
From: WordNet
verb
Shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game" [syn: jar, shake up, bump around]
verb
Organize anew; "We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under" [syn: reorganize, reorganise, shake up]
verb
Shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body) [syn: succuss, shake up]
verb
Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" [syn: stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir]
verb
Change the arrangement or position of [syn: agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up]
verb
Synonyms of 'shake up'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- accelerate,
- accuse,
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- agitate,
- anathematize,
- anathemize,
- animadvert on,
- answer,
- arouse,
- arraign,
- artifice,
- attenuate,
- awake,
- awaken,
- beat,
- beat up,
- blame,
- blunt,
- call to account,
- cast blame upon,
- cast reflection upon,
- censure,
- churn,
- churn up,
- clean sweep,
- cleanup,
- complain against,
- condemn,
- contrivance,
- convulse,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- cry down,
- cry out against,
- cry out on,
- cry shame upon,
- cushion,
- damn,
- damp,
- dampen,
- deaden,
- debilitate,
- decry,
- demarche,
- denounce,
- denunciate,
- device,
- devitalize,
- disarrange,
- discombobulate,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- disquiet,
- disturb,
- dodge,
- dull,
- ease,
- effort,
- electrify,
- enervate,
- enfeeble,
- eviscerate,
- excite,
- exhaust,
- expedient,
- extenuate,
- ferment,
- fluff,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fret,
- fulminate against,
- fuss,
- gentle,
- gimmick,
- gruel,
- hasten,
- hurry,
- impeach,
- improvisation,
- impugn,
- indict,
- inveigh against,
- jar,
- jolt,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- knead,
- knock up,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- laxate,
- lay low,
- limber,
- limber up,
- liquidation,
- loosen,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- mash,
- massage,
- means,
- measure,
- mellow,
- milden,
- mitigate,
- mollify,
- move,
- overturn,
- paddle,
- perturb,
- perturbate,
- pis aller,
- plump,
- pulp,
- purge,
- quicken,
- rattle,
- realign,
- realignment,
- rearrange,
- rearrangement,
- reconstitute,
- reconstitution,
- redispose,
- redisposition,
- redistribute,
- redistribution,
- reduce,
- reflect upon,
- relax,
- removal,
- reorder,
- reordering,
- reorganization,
- reorganize,
- reprehend,
- reproach,
- reprobate,
- resort,
- resource,
- restructure,
- restructuring,
- revolution,
- riddance,
- rile,
- ripple,
- rock,
- roil,
- roughen,
- rouse,
- ruffle,
- rumple,
- sap,
- shake,
- shift,
- shock,
- smash,
- soften,
- soften up,
- solution,
- squash,
- stagger,
- step,
- step up,
- stir,
- stir up,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- subdue,
- supple,
- swirl,
- tactic,
- temporary expedient,
- tenderize,
- tone down,
- trick,
- trouble,
- trump,
- tune down,
- turnover,
- unbrace,
- undermine,
- unman,
- unnerve,
- unsettle,
- unstrengthen,
- unstring,
- upset,
- wake,
- wake up,
- waken,
- weaken,
- whip,
- whip up,
- whisk,
- work up,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
Words containing 'shake up'
- Shake,
- Shaking,
- Shakings,
- The shakes,
- shake down,
- shake off,
- shakes,
- Cup shake,
- No great shakes,
- Shaking palsy,
- Shaking piece,
- To shake a cask,
- To shake hands,
- To shake out a reef,
- To shake the bells,
- To shake the sails,
- Wind shake,
- fair shake,
- milk shake,
- shake hands,
- shake-up,
- two shakes,
- world shaking,
- earth-shaking,
- world-shaking