SHAKE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shake up mean? 

• SHAKE UP (verb)
  The verb SHAKE UP has 6 senses:

1. shock physically

2. organize anew

3. shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)

4. stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

5. change the arrangement or position of

6. make fuller by shaking

  Familiarity information: SHAKE UP used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHAKE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shock physically

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bump around; jar; shake up

Context example:

Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game

Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Organize anew

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

reorganise; reorganize; shake up

Context example:

We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under

Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):

organise; organize (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shake up"):

retool; revise (revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

shake-up; shakeup (the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

shake up; succuss

Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):

agitate; shake (move or cause to move back and forth)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir

Context example:

the civil war shook the country

Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shake up"):

fuel (stimulate)

arouse; excite; sex; turn on; wind up (stimulate sexually)

affright; fright; frighten; scare (cause fear in)

thrill; tickle; vibrate (feel sudden intense sensation or emotion)

invite; tempt (give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting)

elate; intoxicate; lift up; pick up; uplift (fill with high spirits; fill with optimism)

animate; enliven; exalt; inspire; invigorate (heighten or intensify)

titillate (excite pleasurably or erotically)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to shake up Sue

Sense 5

Meaning:

Change the arrangement or position of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

agitate; commove; disturb; raise up; shake up; stir up; vex

Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shake up"):

beat; scramble (stir vigorously)

toss (agitate)

rile; roil (make turbid by stirring up the sediments of)

poke (stir by poking)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Make fuller by shaking

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

fluff up; plump up; shake up

Context example:

fluff up the pillows

Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):

agitate; shake (move or cause to move back and forth)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

George, shake up your timbers, son, and help Dr. Livesey over the ship's side.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)