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SHAKE UP

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make fuller by shaking

Example:

fluff up the pillows

Synonyms:

fluff up; plump up; shake up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):

agitate; shake (move or cause to move back and forth)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Change the arrangement or position of

Synonyms:

agitate; commove; disturb; raise up; shake up; stir up; vex

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shake up"):

beat; scramble (stir vigorously)

toss (agitate)

rile; roil (make turbid by stirring up the sediments of)

poke (stir by poking)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

Example:

the civil war shook the country

Synonyms:

excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shake up"):

fuel (stimulate)

arouse; excite; sex; turn on; wind up (stimulate sexually)

affright; fright; frighten; scare (cause fear in)

thrill; tickle; vibrate (feel sudden intense sensation or emotion)

invite; tempt (give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting)

elate; intoxicate; lift up; pick up; uplift (fill with high spirits; fill with optimism)

animate; enliven; exalt; inspire; invigorate (heighten or intensify)

titillate (excite pleasurably or erotically)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to shake up Sue

Sense 4

Meaning:

Shock physically

Example:

Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game

Synonyms:

bump around; jar; shake up

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

shake up; succuss

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):

agitate; shake (move or cause to move back and forth)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Organize anew

Example:

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

Synonyms:

reorganise; reorganize; shake up

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):

organise; organize (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shake up"):

retool; revise (revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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

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