"shake up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: shakes up [present, singular, third-person], shaking up [participle, present], shook up [past], shaken up [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|shake<,,shook,shaken> up}} shake up (third-person singular simple present shakes up, present participle shaking up, simple past shook up, past participle shaken up)
  1. (transitive) To agitate by shaking. Tags: transitive Translations (to agitate by shaking): друсам (drusam) (Bulgarian), 摇晃 (Chinese Mandarin), ravistaa (Finnish), schütteln (German), aufschütteln (German), aufrütteln (German), durcheinander wirbeln (German), 振る (alt: ふる、furu) (Japanese), suscitō (Latin), skaka om (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-shake_up-en-verb-DZqug07~ Disambiguation of 'to agitate by shaking': 87 9 3 1
  2. (transitive) To restore to its original shape by shaking. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-shake_up-en-verb-wmnORL1l
  3. (transitive, informal) To upset or distress (a person). Tags: informal, transitive Translations (to upset or distress): 动摇 (dòngyáo) (Chinese Mandarin), järkyttää (Finnish), erschüttern (German), völlig durcheinanderbringen (German), aus der Fassung bringen (German), aus den Fugen bringen (German), umhauen [colloquial] (German), stressare (Italian), 動揺する (alt: どうようする、douyousuru) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-shake_up-en-verb-xA2w6RRM Disambiguation of 'to upset or distress': 4 3 91 2
  4. (transitive, informal) To reorganize, to make reforms in. Tags: informal, transitive Translations (to reorganize or reform): reformar (Catalan), reformer (French), réorganiser (French), von Grund auf ändern (German), tiefgreifend verändern (German), umkrempeln (German), riorganizzare (Italian), riformare (Italian), reformar (Portuguese), reorganizar (Portuguese), reformar (Spanish), reorganizar (Spanish), skaka om (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-shake_up-en-verb-UA9jBD2H Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 18 23 52 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 12 17 21 50 Disambiguation of 'to reorganize or reform': 5 19 4 72

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for shake up meaning in English (5.9kB)

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      "roman": "drusam",
      "sense": "to agitate by shaking",
      "word": "друсам"
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      "sense": "to agitate by shaking",
      "word": "摇晃"
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      "sense": "to agitate by shaking",
      "word": "ravistaa"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to agitate by shaking",
      "word": "schütteln"
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      "sense": "to agitate by shaking",
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      "sense": "to agitate by shaking",
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      "word": "durcheinander wirbeln"
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      "sense": "to agitate by shaking",
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      "sense": "to agitate by shaking",
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      "sense": "to agitate by shaking",
      "word": "skaka om"
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      "sense": "to reorganize or reform",
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      "sense": "to reorganize or reform",
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