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Synonyms for shake up
shake up
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
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shakeup, shake-up, reorganisation, reorganizationjar, shake up, bump aroundverb
shock physically
"Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game"
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reorganise, commove, collide, clash, reorganize, shake, vex, succuss, stir, jar, excite, plump up, fluff up, stir up, raise up, agitate, disturb, stimulate, bump around, joltreorganize, reorganise, shake upverb
organize anew
"We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under"
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reorganise, commove, reorganize, shake, regroup, succuss, stir, jar, excite, plump up, fluff up, stir up, raise up, disturb, vex, bump around, agitate, stimulatesuccuss, shake upverb
shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)
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reorganise, commove, raise up, reorganize, shake, vex, succuss, stir, jar, excite, plump up, fluff up, stir up, disturb, stimulate, bump around, agitatestimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stirverb
stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
"These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
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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 upagitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise upverb
change the arrangement or position of
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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 offfluff up, plump up, shake upverb
make fuller by shaking
"fluff up the pillows"
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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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#77 | get | |
#132 | make | |
#182 | sex | |
#422 | press | |
#836 | rock | |
#1223 | cause | |
#1453 | charge | |
#2027 | heat | |
#2171 | campaign | |
#2192 | touch | |
#2575 | fight | |
#2851 | beat | |
#3124 | trouble | |
#3387 | stick | |
#3551 | raise | |
#3587 | push | |
#3711 | shift | |
#4640 | rush | |
#4774 | wake | |
#4785 | puzzle | |
#5005 | worry | |
#5117 | devil | |
#8150 | shake | |
#8393 | jar | |
#9423 | upset | |
#9747 | pose | |
#9936 | bother | |
#10284 | stir | |
#11623 | interrupt | |
#12503 | clash | |
#12747 | stimulate | |
#12803 | excite | |
#13072 | gravel | |
#14129 | induce | |
#15810 | rag | |
#16053 | invoke | |
#16564 | reorganization | |
#16663 | brace | |
#18225 | crusade | |
#20466 | sway | |
#20785 | annoy | |
#23336 | disturb | |
#26553 | collide | |
#26899 | provoke | |
#27242 | ignite | |
#28820 | jolt | |
#29678 | rouse | |
#29834 | evoke | |
#30103 | amaze | |
#38212 | hasten | |
#41205 | baffle | |
#41399 | energize | |
#42240 | nettle | |
#42683 | incite | |
#43132 | arouse | |
#43704 | conjure | |
#43726 | budge | |
#47287 | reorganisation | |
#47688 | irritate | |
#48003 | reorganize | |
#54523 | vex | |
#61548 | regroup | |
#76428 | instigate | |
#86407 | agitate | |
#88126 | inflame | |
#90291 | chafe | |
#95211 | perplex | |
#97124 | energise | |
#108146 | foment | |
#112496 | mystify | |
#115064 | shakeup | |
#127183 | rile | |
#135229 | reorganise | |
#169138 | didder | |
#224053 | bewilder | |
#231498 | nark | |
#305290 | judder |
How to use shake up in a sentence?
There's quite a lot of money on balance sheets in Europe. If companies are reluctant to put it to work, they risk seeing activists twisting their arm to launch buyback plans, there's also a huge potential for restructuring and mergers, and activist funds are starting to shake up things and accelerate the process.
I wanted to recreate the world of wine and shake up traditional butchery, seducing people once again to eat beef by offering them something exceptional.
He was someone that one would have thought would remain very high up in the regime. So this kind of a shake up, particularly if he's been executed, is quite a remarkable turn of events.
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).
The reason both Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are doing well is because the base of the Republican Party rightly feels betrayed by DC Republicans, ted Cruz was willing to use that power to defund Obamacare and he is hated by the DC establishment for fighting the fight that the base wanted. Trump is the outsider iconoclast that gives hope of a top-to-bottom shake up of how DC works.
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