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Dictionary > Definition: shake up

Definition of shake up
  1. make fuller by shaking; "fluff up the pillows"
  2. change the arrangement or position of
  3. stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
  4. shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game"
  5. shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)
  6. organize anew; "We must reorganize the company if we don''t want to go under"
Similar Words: fluff up, plump up, agitate, vex, disturb, commove, stir up, raise up, stimulate, shake, excite, stir, jar, bump around, succuss, reorganize, reorganise

See Also: agitate, foment, stir up

Hyponyms: beat, scramble, toss, roil, rile, poke, fuel, arouse, excite, turn on, wind up, frighten, fright, scare, affright, thrill, tickle, vibrate, tempt, invite, elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate, inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt, titillate, retool, revise

Derivational Morphology: stir, scaremonger, stirrer, excitement, excitation, inflammation, fervor, fervour, succussion, reorganization, reorganisation, shake-up, shakeup

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