Synonyms for shake up

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1. reorganization, reorganisation, shake-up, shakeup(verb)

   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 around(verb)

   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 up(verb)

   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 up(verb)

   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, stir(verb)

   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 up(verb)

   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 up(verb)

   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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