Antonyms for shake up

Grammar : Verb

Spell : sheyk-uhp

Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃeɪkˌʌp

Definition of shake 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 :

Hey, Scottie, shake up the fire and put on some coffee, will you?
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

Shake up, you gibbering fools; luff her a bit and make fast.
Extract from : « The Iron Pirate » by Max Pemberton

Shake up your pillows and put them on a chair near the window.
Extract from : « Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts » by Girl Scouts

Shorty, go back there to the cook tent and shake up those cooks.
Extract from : « Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) » by John McElroy

If anything can shake up the ice and drive us north, this must do it.
Extract from : « Farthest North » by Fridtjof Nansen

Come, Paul, shake up your knowledge-box; I'll not lose this cast simple.
Extract from : « Checkmate » by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Suppose you or Bea could shake up a cup of coffee and some cold lamb for the Nelsons?
Extract from : « Main Street » by Sinclair Lewis

I was in the rocking-chair, and I rocked harder to shake up something that was coming into my head.
Extract from : « Last Words » by Juliana Horatia Ewing

Yet, in her brief absence, he had taken pains to dust himself, and shake up his hair and whiskers.
Extract from : « Two Knapsacks » by John Campbell

But, orl the same, Tubby boy, I reckons it's done us orl good ter 'ave a bit of a shake up like this 'ere.
Extract from : « Pincher Martin, O.D. » by H. Taprell Dorling

Synonyms for shake up

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