What are some alternative words for shake up?
Synonyms for shake up
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
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shakeup, shake-up, reorganisation, reorganizationjar, shake up, bump around(verb)
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 up(verb)
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 up(verb)
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, stir(verb)
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 up(verb)
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 up(verb)
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
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#26 | have | |
#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?
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).
An ongoing trend we've seen throughout the past few admissions cycles is the shift towards a two-test landscape, and what's interesting is that even as some of the changes to the SAT make it more ACT-like, more students are taking both tests or considering the ACT option, students have been recognizing that they have more than one test option, and the shake-up caused by the SAT redesign has furthered this recognition.
Most Democrats in the district may not dislike Pelosi, per se, but would like to shake up the status quo.
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.
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.
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