shake up

See also: shakeup and shake-up

English

Verb

shake up (third-person singular simple present shakes up, present participle shaking up, simple past shook up, past participle shaken up)

1. (transitive) To agitate by shaking.

   If you shake up a can of cola and then open, you get an explosion.

2. (transitive) To restore to its original shape by shaking.
3. (transitive, informal) To upset or distress (a person).

   Seeing the car accident really shook her up.

4. (transitive, informal) To reorganize, to make reforms in.

   The new boss is going to shake things up, so be aware.

Translations

agitate

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摇晃 (zh)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: ravistaa (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: schütteln (de), aufschütteln, aufrütteln, durcheinander wirbeln
• Japanese: 振る (ja) (ふる、furu)
• Latin: suscitō
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

upset

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 动摇 (zh) (dòngyáo)

• Finnish: järkyttää (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: erschüttern (de), völlig durcheinanderbringen, aus der Fassung bringen, aus den Fugen bringen, umhauen (de) (colloquial)
• Italian: stressare (it)
• Japanese: 動揺する (どうようする、douyousuru)

reorganize or reform

• German: von Grund auf ändern, tiefgreifend verändern, umkrempeln (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: riorganizzare, riformare (it)