shake up
Verb
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Verb
shake up
- (transitive) To agitate by shaking.
- If you shake up a can of cola and then open, you get an explosion.
- (transitive) To restore to its original shape by shaking.
- (transitive, informal) To upset or distress (a person).
- Seeing the car accident really shook her up.
- (transitive, informal) To reorganize, to make reforms in.
- The new boss is going to shake things up, so be aware.
- German: schütteln, aufschütteln, aufrütteln, durcheinander wirbeln
- German: erschüttern, völlig durcheinanderbringen, aus der Fassung bringen, aus den Fugen bringen, umhauen (colloquial)
- Italian: stressare
- French: reformer, réorganiser
- German: von Grund auf ändern, tiefgreifend verändern, umkrempeln
- Italian: riorganizzare, riformare
- Portuguese: reformar, reorganizar
- Spanish: reformar, reorganizar
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