verb
- Shock physically.
- usage: "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game"
- synonyms: jar, bump around
- Organize anew.
- usage: "We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under"
- synonyms: reorganize, reorganise
- Shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body.
- synonyms: succuss
- Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.
- usage: "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
- Change the arrangement or position of.
- Make fuller by shaking.
- usage: "fluff up the pillows"
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