Shake Up

Definition: Shake Up

Shake Up

Verb

1. Shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game".

2. Organize anew; "We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under".

3. Shake; esp. (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body).

4. Stir the feelings or emotions of; "These stories shook the community".

5. Change the arrangement or position of.

6. Make fuller by shaking; as of pillows.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Shake Up

Agitation

Agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.

Shake up the picture the lizard mixture (New Moon on Monday; performing artist: Duran Duran)

I'm gonna shake up the system (Die Another Day; performing artist: Madonna; writing credit: Madonna)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Kevin Garnett: Shake Up the Game (New Wave) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

shkundje (jar, jog, jolt, toss), shaj (abuse, ballyrag, berate, bullyrag, call names, carpet, castigate, chastise, chide, come down on, curse, dish it out, dress down, flay, inveigh, jaw, lay into, objurgate, offend, rag, rap, revile, scold, shout, shout at, swear, tell off, trounce, upbraid, vituperate), tund (appal, appall, beat up, convulse, dandle, dangle, jar, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, shake, switch, wag, waggle, wield), trondit (appal, appall, concuss, overwhelm, rattle, shake, shock, stagger, stir, touch), reorganizim, ndryshim në aparat shtetëror. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قلب الأوضاع, ‏تعديل كبير, ‏تعديل وزاري واسع, ‏أقلق (agitate, beset, concern, disconcert, disquiet, distress, disturb, ferret, fret, fuss, hop, molest, obsess, peck, perturb, rile, spook, torment, trouble, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, worry), ‏أعاد تنظيم شيء ما, ‏أثار المشاعر (shake, work up), ‏رج بعنف. (various references)

Bulgarian 

събуждам (arouse, awake, awaken, call up, challenge, elevate, get up, rouse, wake, wake up, waken), реорганизация (reorganization, turnover), реорганизирам основно, разтърсвам (jolt, jounce, startle), разклащам (depolarise, joggle, loosen, rock, shake, stir up), раздвижване (limbering up, movement, rouse, stir, uplift), раздвижвам (agitate, fluctuate, jog, quicken, rouse, stir, stir up trouble, wake, whip up, work on, work up), основна промяна. (various references)

Czech

zatřepat, probuzení (awakening), natřást, naèechrat (ruffle). (various references)

Danish

shake up spawning (mixed spawning, shake up spawning), oprystning (mixed spawning, shake up spawning). (various references)

Dutch

shake up spawning (mixed spawning, shake up spawning), half doorgroeide compost opschudden (mixed spawning, shake up spawning). (various references)

Finnish

ravistella, ravistaa (shake, shake off). (various references)

French

secouer (shake, shake down, shock), réorganiser, grande réorganisation, grand remaniement, bouleverser (shake, shock), agiter (shake), émotionner. (various references)

German

wachrütteln (arouse, rouse, to shake up). (various references)

Greek 

ξετινάζω, αιφνίδια αναδιοργάνωση. (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"פך (change over, reverse, revolution, tropic, upheaval). (various references)

Hungarian

rögtönzött dolog, felrázás (shake), felráz (jog, shake, to agitate, to jog, to shake up, to wake, woke, woken). (various references)

Indonesian

gojlok (haze). (various references)

Italian

sprimacciare (plump up), scuotere (jolt, rouse, shake, shook, stir, toss), cambiamento (about-face, alteration, change, conversion, leap, mutation, reversal, shift, switch, transformation, turn), agitare (agitate, become upset, convulse, discompose, excite, flap, flirt, fluster, flutter, fly, fret, Frisk, get excited, lash, rattle, ruffle, shake, stir, swing, toss, upset, wag, waggle, wave, wave about, wave around). (various references)

Maya

chiikt (to shake up). (various references)

Pig Latin

akeshay upay

Portuguese

remexer o composto impregnado (mixed spawning, shake up spawning), "shake spawning". (various references)

Romanian

zguduire (commotion, concussion, convulsion, shake, shaking, shock), zgudui (concuss, convulse, hitch, jog, jump, shake, shock), remaniere (reshuffling, shuffle), lucru improvizat, bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), agita (agitate, arouse, brandish, bustle, churn, excite, fidget, flirt, flourish, flurry, flutter, fret, fume, incite, raise, rouse, ruffle, shake, shock, stir, trouble, vex, wag, waggle, wave, wriggle). (various references)

Russian 

чистка госаппарата, чистка (cleaning, purge, scour, sweep), встряска, взболтать (stir), взбалтывать (stir), взбить (beat up, whip). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzdrmati (jolt, rock, stagger), ugruvati (damage, hurt), reorganizovati (reorganise, reorganize), reorganizacija (reorganization, shakeup). (various references)

Spanish

sacudir (bang, beat, invertebrate, jog, jolt, kick in, shake, shake off, shake out, sway, toss, worry), reorganizar (rearrange, reconvert, re-form, regroup, remodel, reorganise, reorganize), reorganización (regrouping, reorganization, reshaping), estimular (abet, boost, bring on, encourage, excite, exhilarate, fuel, ginger up, incite, invigorate, jog, liven, liven up, prod, promote, prompt, quicken, rouse, spur, stimulate, stir, stir up, titillate, whip up), conmocionar, conmoción (commotion, concussion, earthquake, ferment, fuss, shock, stir), agitar (agitate, excite, flourish, flurry, flutter, rattle, ruffle, shake, switch, trouble, wag, wave, whirl, wind up). (various references)

Swedish

skaka upp, skaka om (jolt), uppryckning, rycka upp (jolt, pull up), omorganisation, omöblering. (various references)

Turkish

silkelemek (shake, shake down, shake off, shake out), sarsmak (affect, afflict, agitate, buffet, buffet about, concuss, convulse, cut up, depolarise, dislocate, erode, give a jerk, hit, horrify, jar, jerk, jog, jolt, jounce, reduce, rock, shake, shock, undermine, unsettle), sarsarak uyandırmak, yumuşatmak (attemper, chasten, dulcify, limber up, loosen, mellow, melt, moderate, mollify, mute, relax, season, smooth, soft pedal, soften, supple, tame, unbend, unman), yeniden örgütlemek (reorganize), uyanma (awakening, dawn, renaissance, waking up), uyanış (awakening, renaissance, renascense, revival, wakening, waking up), reorganize etmek (reconvert, reorganize), reorganizasyon yapma, gözünü açmak (alert, awake, disabuse, disabuse of, disenchant, disillusion, open one's eyes, undeceive, wake, waken), gözü açılma, değişiklik yapmak (alter, emend, innovate, modify, recast, remodel, work over), değişiklik yapma (emendation), çalkalamak (agitate, churn, rinse, rinse out, rouse, shake, slosh, swash, swill, swill out, whip up), çırpmak (beat, beat up, churn, clap, cream, fold, mill, scramble, shake, stir up, whip, whip up, whisk). (various references)

Turkmen 

tisginmek (shudder, start). (various references)

Ukrainian

струс (concussion, jar, shake, shaking, squat, tremor), розворушити, збовтувати (agitate, churn, jumble, stir up), збивати (bag, churn, knock off, whisk), переміщення службових осіб. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: shakeup.

-2 letters: ephas, hakes, heaps, kaphs, pause, peaks, phase, pukes, shake, shape, spake, speak, ukase.

-3 letters: apes, apse, auks, epha, haes, hake, haps, hasp, heap, hues, husk, kaes, kaph, keas, keps, kues, pase, pash, peak, peas, pehs, puke, push, sake, shea, skep, skua, spae, spue, supe, ukes, upas.

-4 letters: ape, ash, ask, asp, auk, eau.

+1 letter: shakeups.

+5 letters: packinghouse.