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Shake up   /ʃeɪk əp/   Listen
Shake up

verb
1.
Shock physically.  Synonyms: bump around, jar.
2.
Organize anew.  Synonyms: reorganise, reorganize.
3.
Shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body).  Synonym: succuss.
4.
Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.  Synonyms: excite, shake, stimulate, stir.  "The civil war shook the country"
5.
Change the arrangement or position of.  Synonyms: agitate, commove, disturb, raise up, stir up, vex.
6.
Make fuller by shaking.  Synonyms: fluff up, plump up.






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"Shake up" Quotes from Famous Books



... for you to spin your dreams. Shake up Peter, and we'll get ready for the night. Too bad to leave this fire, but we can have one ...
— Little Busybodies - The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies • Jeanette Augustus Marks and Julia Moody

... here just as a consequence of that little shake up, may be for a couple of weeks, may be three, and if you're coming to do a bit of a talk to me ever and again, then I tell you I don't call this a misfortune. It isn't a misfortune. It's ...
— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells

... end, and lay in ice-water one hour; wipe them, slice thin, and slice an onion equally thin. Strew salt over them, shake up a few times, cover and let remain in this brine for another hour. Then squeeze or press out every drop of water which has been extracted from the cucumbers. Put into a salad bowl, sprinkle with white pepper and scatter bits of parsley over them; add enough vinegar to cover. ...
— The International Jewish Cook Book • Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

... 'shake up that drone and drunkard, Carlton; tell him that his master directs that the travelling carriage shall be at the ...
— The Purcell Papers - Volume I. (of III.) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

... not float in water. If we shake up sand in water the sand sinks, leaving the water entirely clear. So running water does not carry sand with it unless it is running very quickly: the sand ...
— Lessons on Soil • E. J. Russell


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