Synonyms for shake up
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1. reorganization, reorganisation, shake-up, shakeupverb

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

   "a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum"; "top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup"

   Synonyms:
   shakeup, shake-up, reorganisation, reorganization

2. jar, shake up, bump aroundverb

   shock physically

   "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game"

   Synonyms:
   reorganise, commove, collide, clash, reorganize, shake, vex, succuss, stir, jar, excite, plump up, fluff up, stir up, raise up, agitate, disturb, stimulate, bump around, jolt

3. reorganize, reorganise, shake upverb

   organize anew

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

   Synonyms:
   reorganise, commove, reorganize, shake, regroup, succuss, stir, jar, excite, plump up, fluff up, stir up, raise up, disturb, vex, bump around, agitate, stimulate

4. succuss, shake upverb

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

   Synonyms:
   reorganise, commove, raise up, reorganize, shake, vex, succuss, stir, jar, excite, plump up, fluff up, stir up, disturb, stimulate, bump around, agitate

5. stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stirverb

   stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

   "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"

   Synonyms:
   touch, charge, excite, didder, succuss, have, raise up, get, rock, provoke, commove, energize, perk up, agitate, hasten, stir, call down, shift, conjure, make, reorganise, energise, turn on, arouse, shake, wind up, reorganize, vex, conjure up, cause, sway, escape from, induce, budge, judder, raise, stimulate, jar, shake off, throw off, bump around, call forth, invoke, charge up, rouse, brace, bring up, evoke, sex, fluff up, rush, put forward, stir up, disturb, plump up

6. agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise upverb

   change the arrangement or position of

   Synonyms:
   fight, touch, crusade, succuss, excite, stick, perplex, disturb, get, nark, irritate, shake, mystify, flummox, commove, inflame, bother, press, agitate, rile, gravel, stir, nonplus, wake, shift, instigate, stimulate, reorganise, get to, dumbfound, rouse, fire up, reorganize, interrupt, vex, heat, nettle, baffle, chafe, get at, trouble, beat, fluff up, ignite, budge, amaze, turn on, charge, annoy, bump around, upset, charge up, incite, jar, puzzle, bewilder, rag, push, foment, campaign, stupefy, worry, stir up, raise up, plump up, pose, devil, set off

7. fluff up, plump up, shake upverb

   make fuller by shaking

   "fluff up the pillows"

   Synonyms:
   reorganise, commove, reorganize, shake, succuss, stir, jar, plump up, fluff up, stir up, raise up, bump around, disturb, vex, excite, agitate, stimulate

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1. Mats Wilander:

   I think (the seeds going out) it's way more positive than negative for women's tennis, i hope that men's tennis goes that way where we see more upsets. It's great to follow Federer and Nadal, but I think 16 seeds would shake up the men's draw.

2. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich:

   Serving notice that we are not trapped by large contractors with big armies of lobbyists is going to shake up Washington as much as any single thing you can do.

3. Kevan Yenerall:

   Most Democrats in the district may not dislike Pelosi, per se, but would like to shake up the status quo.

4. Mileah Kromer:

   His absence will shake up the race because he was an important political figure in the state, he had a serious record for any candidate to run on. That, of course, is a loss. That is a loss to the Democratic Party and a loss to the voters of Maryland.

5. Bernie Ecclestone:

   I think there’s lots of things we can do and will be doing, what people needed was a bit of a shake up. I seem to be the only person that has thought we should do something in Formula One, to wake everybody up a little bit. And maybe that’s what’s happened.