VERB
- shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)
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make fuller by shaking
fluff up the pillows -
stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
the civil war shook the country
These stories shook the community -
organize anew
We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under - change the arrangement or position of
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shock physically
Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game
How To Use shake up In A Sentence
- There is no doubt that the voters wanted to shake up the status quo and they have done this by creating what is almost a hung parliament.
- Shake up your menu occasionally, and scour supermarket shelves for flavorful extras.
- At the same time, the imminent introduction of wide-bodied aircraft threatened to shake up the entire industry for the second time in ten years.
- Like so many fashionably modernistic productions, this one comes across as gimmicky, born of a desire to shock in order to shake up conventional morality.
- I've always been a sucker for film-makers who shake up the snow globe of my so-called life.
- I understood ACPO is non-profit and puts up the cash for national intelligence projects the Gov can't be shagged to pay for ... like the research into handling Rape Crimes. the context of the government's plans to shake up policing by putting forces – but not undercover surveillance – under the control of elected commissioners. Policing and surveillance: The inspector calls | Editorial
- Even here, there was consistent fear of anything that threatened to shake up the status quo.
- The Daily Telegraph said Capello desperately needs to shake up his team to get the best out of players like Frank Lampard and a "dispirited" Rooney before the final group C game with Slovenia. The Age News Headlines
- Prerequisites are a willingness to experiment, a desire to play, and a hankering to shake up preconceived notions about your art and photography.
- He intends to shake up the classroom, but will he make the grade? The Sun
