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Synonyms for shake-up
shake-up
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Princeton's WordNet
reorganization, reorganisation, shake-up, shakeupverb
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, reorganisation, reorganizationjar, shake up, bump aroundverb
shock physically
"Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game"
Synonyms:
reorganise, commove, collide, clash, reorganize, shake, vex, succuss, stir, jar, excite, plump up, fluff up, shake up, stir up, raise up, agitate, disturb, stimulate, bump around, joltreorganize, reorganise, shake upverb
organize anew
"We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under"
Synonyms:
reorganise, commove, shake up, reorganize, shake, regroup, succuss, stir, jar, excite, plump up, fluff up, stir up, raise up, disturb, vex, bump around, agitate, stimulatesuccuss, shake upverb
shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)
Synonyms:
reorganise, commove, raise up, reorganize, shake, vex, succuss, stir, jar, excite, plump up, fluff up, shake up, stir up, disturb, stimulate, bump around, agitatestimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stirverb
stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
"These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
Synonyms:
touch, shake up, 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 upverb
change the arrangement or position of
Synonyms:
fight, touch, crusade, succuss, excite, stick, perplex, disturb, get, nark, irritate, shake up, 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 upverb
make fuller by shaking
"fluff up the pillows"
Synonyms:
reorganise, commove, shake up, reorganize, shake, succuss, stir, jar, plump up, fluff up, stir up, raise up, bump around, disturb, vex, excite, agitate, stimulate
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "shake-up":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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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 | |
#43008 | upheaval | |
#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?
You could drop me in the Bush administration, and I'd feel right at home, gen Z and many conservatives of my age are looking for someone to shake up the system, but not to burn the country down in the process.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich:
Serving notice that we are not trapped by large contractors with big armies of lobbyists is going to shake up Washington as much as any single thing you can do.
We don't like the Washington establishment. We think that there needs to be a shake-up in both parties, and voters were very adamant about that, and this campaign is really about that.
Most Democrats in the district may not dislike Pelosi, per se, but would like to shake up the status quo.
It would remind people that they can mobilise and protest, and that could shake up the ruling alliance.
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