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Definition of Shake up
1. Verb. Shock physically. "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game"
2. Verb. Organize anew. "We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under"
Generic synonyms: Organise, Organize
Specialized synonyms: Retool, Revise
Derivative terms: Reorganization, Reorganization, Shake-up, Shakeup
3. Verb. Shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body).
4. Verb. Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of. "The performance is likely to shake up Sue"; "The civil war shook the country"
Generic synonyms: Arouse, Elicit, Enkindle, Evoke, Fire, Kindle, Provoke, Raise
Specialized synonyms: Fuel, Arouse, Excite, Sex, Turn On, Wind Up, Affright, Fright, Frighten, Scare, Thrill, Tickle, Vibrate, Invite, Tempt, Elate, Intoxicate, Lift Up, Pick Up, Uplift, Animate, Enliven, Exalt, Inspire, Invigorate, Titillate
Derivative terms: Excitation, Excitement, Stir, Stirrer
Also: Stir Up
5. Verb. Change the arrangement or position of.
Specialized synonyms: Beat, Scramble, Toss, Rile, Roil, Poke
Generic synonyms: Displace, Move
6. Verb. Make fuller by shaking. "Fluff up the pillows"
Definition of Shake up
1. Verb. (transitive) To agitate by shaking. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To reorganize, to make reforms in. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shake Up
Literary usage of Shake up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"shake up (American), to obtain, get, procure. As if one had got game by shaking
up or beating the bushes or coverts. I never saw such magnificent weather ..."
2. The Life of Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-fifth President of the United States by Murat Halstead (1902)
"... on Dangerous Obedience to Orders—His Two Years' Old Opinion Was Sampson Was
in Command—There Is a shake up—A "Historian" Ordered Not to Labor Any More, ..."
3. Secwana Dictionary: Secwana-English and English-Secwana by John Tom Brown (1895)
"... to shake up and down, as a person his finger, or a dog its tail, ... to shake
up and down, so as to remove bran, ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"... shake up: see succuss.] 1. The act of shaking.—2. A shaking ; a violent shock.
If the trunk is the principal seat of lesion, as . . . from violent ..."
5. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"to tremble with cold or fever ; ruru, to shake, to shake up; to move, to stir,
to rouse; ru- raga, impatience, eagerness. ..."
6. Plumbing and Household Sanitation by John Pickering Putnam (1911)
"\Ye cannot violently shake up the trap on a fixture as we do a detached bottle,
and a current of water powerful enough to shake up the shot or ball without ..."
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