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From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  shake up
       v 1: shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game"
            [syn: jar, bump around]
       2: organize anew; "We must reorganize the company if we don't
          want to go under" [syn: reorganize, reorganise]
       3: shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the
          body) [syn: succuss]
       4: stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories
          shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
          [syn: stimulate, shake, excite, stir]
       5: change the arrangement or position of [syn: agitate, vex,
           disturb, commove, stir up, raise up]
       6: make fuller by shaking; "fluff up the pillows" [syn: fluff
          up, plump up]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  shake up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To agitate by shaking.
     2 (lb en transitive) To restore to its original shape by shaking.
     3 (lb en transitive informal) To upset or distress (a person).
     4 (lb en transitive informal) To reorganize, to make reforms in.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  shake up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To agitate by shaking.
     2 (lb en transitive) To restore to its original shape by shaking.
     3 (lb en transitive informal) To upset or distress (a person).
     4 (lb en transitive informal) To reorganize, to make reforms in.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  shake up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To agitate by shaking.
     2 (lb en transitive) To restore to its original shape by shaking.
     3 (lb en transitive informal) To upset or distress (a person).
     4 (lb en transitive informal) To reorganize, to make reforms in.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  shake up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To agitate by shaking.
     2 (lb en transitive) To restore to its original shape by shaking.
     3 (lb en transitive informal) To upset or distress (a person).
     4 (lb en transitive informal) To reorganize, to make reforms in.

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  shake up /ʃˈeɪk ˈʌp/ 
  друсам
  to agitate by shaking

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  shake up /ʃˈeɪk ˈʌp/ 
  natřást

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  shake up /ʃˈeɪk ˈʌp/ 
  zatřást

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  shake up /ʃˈeɪk ˈʌp/
   [coll.] umkrempeln [eine Organisation usw.] , ummodeln  [ugs.]
   see: shaking up, shaked up
  
           Note: an organisation etc.

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  shake up /ʃˈeɪk ˈʌp/
  auflockern 
           Note: Sprengarbeit

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  shake up /ʃˈeɪk ˈʌp/ 
  1. ravistaa
  to agitate by shaking
  2. järkyttää
  to upset or distress

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  shake up /ʃˈeɪk ˈʌp/ 
  1. 振る
  to agitate by shaking
  2. 動揺する
  to upset or distress

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  shake up /ʃˈeɪk ˈʌp/ 
  skaka om 2.
  to agitate by shaking
   3.
  to reorganize or reform

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  208 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  摇匀;激励,使振作

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     摇动,摇匀

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