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How to use shook-up in a sentence

We shook up our horses, and they trotted forward, Marcel and I assuming an air of ease and indifference.

IN HOSTILE REDJOSEPH ALTSHELER

And, to make it all the more difficult to put them together again, I shook up the pieces in a basket.

THE LAW AND THE LADYWILKIE COLLINS

Sarah Woodham shook up the medicine, poured out another glassful, placed it on the mantelpiece as directed, and left the room.

KING OF THE CASTLEGEORGE MANVILLE FENN

I filled a flask one third part with freshly drawn ox blood, closed it tightly with a bladder, and shook up the blood frequently.

DISCOVERY OF OXYGEN, PART 2CARL WILHELM SCHEELE

As he spoke, Mrs. Arkwright shook up the pillows hastily, and went to a side table for a glass.

AFTERWARDSIAN MACLAREN

Well, then, I guess you’re some shook up; what you want’s food, right now!

THE DEFINITE OBJECTJEFFERY FARNOL

So she shook up the old cushion, brought up the stool, sat on that and laid her head in the chair.

A MODERN CINDERELLAAMANDA M. DOUGLAS

Raw was just so shook up that he might be pardoned for failing to recognize Queenie even if he saw her.

THE DUCK-FOOTED HOUNDJAMES ARTHUR KJELGAARD

They shook up the batting order, they benched some of the regulars temporarily, and put the reserve men in their places.

BASEBALL JOE, CAPTAIN OF THE TEAMLESTER CHADWICK

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  • as in upset

  • verb



  • as in shocked

  • as in upset
  • as in shocked



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shook-up
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adjective

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as in upset

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  • collected

  • calm

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  • cool

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  • happy—go—lucky

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shook up

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verb

past tense of shake up

as in shocked

to cause an unpleasant surprise for

the news that we had failed the auto inspection shook us up

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  • shocked

  • appalled

  • stunned

  • shook

  • horrified

  • scared

  • startled

  • frightened

  • jolted

  • knocked for a loop

  • bowled over

  • astonished

  • outraged

  • floored

  • terrified

  • alarmed

  • amazed

  • panicked

  • turned off

  • overwhelmed

  • disgusted

  • dumbfounded

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  • flabbergasted

  • offended

  • spooked

  • sickened

  • revolted

  • scandalized

  • terrorized

  • scarified

  • dismayed

  • upset

  • freaked (out)

  • nauseated

  • dumfounded

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  • awed

  • astounded

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  • emasculated

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  • affrighted

  • unmanned

  • daunted

  • demoralized

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  • unstrung

  • discomposed

  • overpowered

  • crushed

  • discomforted

  • undid


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  • tickled

  • gratified

  • pleased

  • cushioned

  • delighted

  • rejoiced

  • buffered

  • enticed

  • cheered

  • charmed

  • tempted

  • assured

  • consoled

  • comforted

  • reassured

  • soothed

  • solaced

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  • pleased

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  • rejoiced

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взбалтывать, взбить, взболтать, расшевелить, взбивать, перетряхивать, взбудоражить

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- тряхнуть

the collision shook up both drivers — обоих водителей тряхнуло при столкновении 

- расшевелить, взбудоражить; разбудить

the news shook him up a bit — это известие немного встряхнуло его 

- раздражать, шокировать
- радикально реорганизовать; перетряхнуть (структуру, кадры)

to shake up the management — перетряхнуть руководство (предприятия) 

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shake up a mattress — взбить тюфяк  
shake up a pillow — взбить подушку  
shake up — радикально реорганизовать; основательно перетрясти; коренная реорганизация  

Примеры с переводом

That lazy boy needs shaking up. 

Этого лентяя нужно расшевелить.

Shake up the medicine before drinking it. 

Встряхните лекарство перед употреблением.

That government department needs shaking up. 

Нужно провести реорганизацию этого правительственного ведомства.

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Grammar : Verb
Spell : sheyk
Phonetic Transcription : ʃeɪk

Top 10 synonyms for shook up

Other synonyms for the word shook up

  • liquidate
  • make a clean sweep
  • mix
  • overturn
  • purge
  • remove
  • rid
  • stir up
  • turn upside down

Définition of shook up

Origin :

  • Old English sceacan «move (something) quickly to and fro, brandish; move the body or a part of it rapidly back and forth;» also «go, glide, hasten, flee, depart» (cf. sceacdom «flight»); of persons or parts of the body, «to tremble» especially from fever, cold, fear» (class VI strong verb; past tense scoc, past participle scacen), from Proto-Germanic *skakanan (cf. Old Norse, Swedish skaka, Danish skage «to shift, turn, veer»). No certain cognates outside Germanic, but some suggest a possible connection to Sanskrit khaj «to agitate, churn, stir about,» Old Church Slavonic skoku «a leap, bound,» Welsh ysgogi «move.»
  • Of the earth in earthquakes, c.1300. Meaning «seize and shake (someone or something else)» is from early 14c. In reference to mixing ingredients, etc., by shaking a container from late 14c. Meaning «to rid oneself of by abrupt twists» is from c.1200, also in Middle English in reference to evading responsibility, etc. Meaning «weaken, impair» is from late 14c., on notion of «make unstable.»
  • To shake hands dates from 1530s. Shake a (loose) leg «hurry up» first recorded 1904; shake a heel (sometimes foot) was an old way to say «to dance» (1660s); to shake (one’s) elbow (1620s) meant «to gamble at dice.» Phrase more _____ than you can shake a stick at is attested from 1818, American English. To shake (one’s) head as a sign of disapproval is recorded from c.1300.

  • verb upset, unsettle

Example sentences :

  • You never see a man so shook up by the nightmare as he was by that one.
  • Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Then she passed round to the other side and shook up the fire.
  • Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • «Shook up, that’s all,» answered Sam, after rising to his feet.
  • Extract from : « The Rover Boys on the Farm » by Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)
  • Many of them were bruised and all were shook up, but they all made the deck.
  • Extract from : « The U-boat hunters » by James B. Connolly
  • I was so scared and shook up that I was afraid to sleep alone.
  • Extract from : « Mitch Miller » by Edgar Lee Masters
  • And when she shook up Carol’s pillow she found it was very damp.
  • Extract from : « Prudence Says So » by Ethel Hueston
  • I saw that he himself was shook up, and it only needed that to scare me bad.
  • Extract from : « Joe Wilson and His Mates » by Henry Lawson
  • The fender shoved the ole man around some, but I reckon he only got shook up.
  • Extract from : « The Turmoil » by Booth Tarkington
  • He shook up its pillows, and bustled its business arrangements.
  • Extract from : « The English Novel » by George Saintsbury
  • Well, then, I guess you’re some shook up; what you want’s food, right now!
  • Extract from : « The Definite Object » by Jeffery Farnol

Antonyms for shook up

  • calm
  • placate
  • soothe

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