shake up

• POS: Noun Phrase, Verb (transitive)

THESAURUS

shake up

abate, accelerate, accuse, action, ad hoc measure, agitate, anathematize, anathemize, animadvert on, answer, arouse, arraign, artifice, attenuate, awake, awaken, beat, beat up, blame, blunt, call to account, cast blame upon, cast reflection upon, censure, churn, churn up, clean sweep, cleanup, complain against, condemn, contrivance, convulse, countermove, coup, course of action, cramp, cripple, cry down, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, cushion, damn, damp, dampen, deaden, debilitate, decry, demarche, denounce, denunciate, device, devitalize, disarrange, discombobulate, discompose, disconcert, disquiet, disturb, dodge, dull, ease, effort, electrify, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, excite, exhaust, expedient, extenuate, ferment, fluff, flurry, fluster, flutter, fret, fulminate against, fuss, gentle, gimmick, gruel, hasten, hurry, impeach, improvisation, impugn, indict, inveigh against, jar, jolt, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, knead, knock up, last expedient, last resort, last shift, laxate, lay low, limber, limber up, liquidation, loosen, makeshift, maneuver, mash, massage, means, measure, mellow, milden, mitigate, mollify, move, overturn, paddle, perturb, perturbate, pis aller, plump, pulp, purge, quicken, rattle, realign, realignment, rearrange, rearrangement, reconstitute, reconstitution, redispose, redisposition, redistribute, redistribution, reduce, reflect upon, relax, removal, reorder, reordering, reorganization, reorganize, reprehend, reproach, reprobate, resort, resource, restructure, restructuring, revolution, riddance, rile, ripple, rock, roil, roughen, rouse, ruffle, rumple, sap, shake, shift, shock, smash, soften, soften up, solution, squash, stagger, step, step up, stir, stir up, stopgap, stratagem, stroke, stroke of policy, subdue, supple, swirl, tactic, temporary expedient, tenderize, tone down, trick, trouble, trump, tune down, turnover, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve, unsettle, unstrengthen, unstring, upset, wake, wake up, waken, weaken, whip, whip up, whisk, work up, working hypothesis, working proposition

ROGET THESAURUS

shake up

Agitation

VB be agitated, shake, tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf, quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle, wriggle, wriggle like an eel, dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort, squirm, throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat, flutter, flitter, flicker, bicker, bustle, ferment, effervesce, foam, boil, boil over, bubble up, simmer, toss about, jump about, jump like a parched pea, shake like an aspen leaf, shake to its center, shake to its foundations, be the sport of the winds and waves, reel to and fro like a drunken man, move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard, agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt, jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.