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Noun: shakeup  'sheyk`úp
  1. The imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes)
    "top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup"
    - reorganization, reorganisation [Brit], shake-up
Verb: shake up
  1. Shock physically
    - jar, bump around
     
  2. Organize anew
    - reorganize, reorganise [Brit]
     
  3. Shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)
    - succuss
     
  4. Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
    - stimulate, shake, excite, stir
     
  5. Change the arrangement or position of
    - agitate, vex, disturb, commove, stir up, raise up
     
  6. Make fuller by shaking
    - fluff up, plump up

Derived forms: shakes up, shake-ups, shakeups, shaken up, shook up, shaking up

Type of: agitate, arouse, displace, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, move, organisation [Brit], organise [Brit], organization, organize, provoke, raise, shake