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shake up

shake up verb: to agitate by shaking.

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 it, you get an explosion.
  2. (transitive) To restore to its original shape by shaking.
  3. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To upset or distress (a person).
    • Seeing the car accident really shook her up.
  4. (informal, transitive) To reorganize, to make reforms in.
    • The new boss is going to shake things up, so be aware.

shake up meaning in Tamil and Urdu

shake up in Tamil

பெருமாற்றம், புத்தமைப்பு

shake up in Urdu

ڈھیلا کرنا, ہلانا, ملانا

Forms of shake up

third-person singular presentshakes up
present participleshaking up
pastshook up
past participleshaken up

Questions about shake up

What does shake up mean?
Shake up means to agitate by shaking.
What is shake up in Tamil?
Shake up in Tamil is பெருமாற்றம், புத்தமைப்பு. See Shake up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shake up?
Shake up is a verb.
What is the past tense of shake up?
The past tense of shake up is shook up.

Words near shake up in the dictionary

  1. shake the dust from one's feet
  2. shake the dust from one's sandals
  3. shake the pagoda tree
  4. shake the plum tree
  5. shake together
  6. shake up
  7. shake-a-leg
  8. shake-and-bake
  9. shake-and-bakes
  10. shake-down
  11. shake-downs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shake up (page history and authors); shake up (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shake up (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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