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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, rejig [Brit]

1. Shock physically
   - jar, bump around
    
2. Organize anew
   "We must shake up the company if we don't want to go under";
   - reorganize, reorganise [Brit]
    
3. Shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)
   - succuss
    
4. Excite the feelings or emotions of; disturb the peace of
   "These stories shook up the community";
   - stimulate, shake, excite, stir
    
5. Change the arrangement or position of
   - agitate, vex, disturb, commove, stir up, raise up
    
6. Make fuller by shaking
   "shake up the pillows";
   - fluff up, plump up

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

See also: ruffle

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