Dictionary entry details
• SHAKE UP (verb)
Meaning:
Shock physically
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
bump around; shake up; jar
Context example:
Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game
Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Organize anew
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
reorganize; reorganise; shake up
Context example:
We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under
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
Meaning:
Shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
succuss; shake up
Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):
agitate; shake (move or cause to move back and forth)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
stimulate; stir; shake up; shake; excite
Context examples:
These stories shook the community / the civil war shook the country
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"):
titillate (excite pleasurably or erotically)
animate; enliven; exalt; inspire; invigorate (heighten or intensify)
elate; intoxicate; lift up; pick up; uplift (fill with high spirits; fill with optimism)
invite; tempt (give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting)
thrill; tickle; vibrate (feel sudden intense sensation or emotion)
affright; fright; frighten; scare (cause fear in)
arouse; excite; sex; turn on; wind up (stimulate sexually)
fuel (stimulate)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
The performance is likely to shake up Sue
Meaning:
Change the arrangement or position of
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
raise up; commove; disturb; stir up; vex; shake up; agitate
Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, 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
Meaning:
Make fuller by shaking
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
fluff up; plump up; shake up
Context example:
fluff up the pillows
Hypernyms (to "shake up" is one way to...):
agitate; shake (move or cause to move back and forth)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
