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What is "shake up"

Wiktionary
shake up

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To agitate by shaking. 2 (context transitive English) To reorganize, to make reforms in.

WordNet
shake up

  1. v. shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game" [syn: jar, bump around]

  2. organize anew; "We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under" [syn: reorganize, reorganise]

  3. shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body) [syn: succuss]

  4. stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" [syn: stimulate, shake, excite, stir]

  5. change the arrangement or position of [syn: agitate, vex, disturb, commove, stir up, raise up]

  6. make fuller by shaking; "fluff up the pillows" [syn: fluff up, plump up]

Usage examples of "shake up".

We're trying to figure a way to shake up their political leadership.

Trystin listened, hoping behind the faint smile on his face that his redesigned mission would shake up the almost blind faith of the Revenants.

The first thing a healer has to do to heal is to shake up perceptions.