shaking up

Main Entry:
shake up
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: upset, unsettle
Synonyms: agitate, break with past, cause revolution, churn up, clean out, clean up, clear out, disturb, liquidate, make a clean sweep, mix, overturn, purge, remove, reorganize, rid, shock, stir up, turn upside down
Antonyms: calm, placate, soothe
Main Entry: disturb
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bother, upset
Synonyms: afflict, agitate, ail, alarm, amaze, annoy, arouse, astound, badger, burn up, complicate, confound, confuse, depress, discompose, dishearten, disrupt, distract, distress, excite, fluster, frighten, gall, grieve, harass, interfere, interrupt, intrude, irk, irritate, make uneasy, molest, muddle, outrage, pain, perplex, perturb, pester, pique, plague, provoke, puzzle, rattle, rouse, ruffle, shake, shake up, startle, tire, trouble, unhinge, unnerve, unsettle, vex, worry
Notes: disturb is based on Latin turba 'tumult' and disturb applies better to physical agitation and perturb to mental agitation
Antonyms: appease, calm, comfort, pacify, quiet, reassure, soothe
Main Entry: hurt
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cause physical pain; experience pain
Synonyms: abuse, ache, afflict, ail, be sore, be tender, belt, bite, blemish, bruise, burn, cramp, cut, cut up, damage, disable, do violence, flail, flog, harm, impair, injure, kick, lacerate, lash, maltreat, mar, maul, mess up, nip, pierce, pinch, pommel, prick, pummel, punch, puncture, punish, rough up, shake up, slap, slug, smart, spank, spoil, squeeze, stab, sting, tear, throb, torment, torture, total, trouble, wax, whack, whip, wing, wound, wrack up, wring
Antonyms: aid, assist, assuage, cure, heal, help, relieve, remedy, soothe
Main Entry: injure
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hurt, harm
Synonyms: abuse, aggrieve, batter, blemish, blight, break, contort, cripple, cut up, damage, deface, deform, disable, disfigure, distort, distress, do in, draw blood, foul, foul up, grieve, hack up, impair, maim, maltreat, mangle, mar, mutilate, pain, pique, prejudice, ruin, shake up, spoil, sting, tarnish, torment, torture, total, undermine, vitiate, wax, weaken, wound, wrong
Antonyms: aid, assist, cure, fix, heal, help, mend
Main Entry: jolt
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: surprise; push suddenly
Synonyms: astonish, bowl over, bump, churn, convulse, discompose, disturb, floor, jar, jerk, jog, jostle, knock, knock over, lay out, perturb, rock, shake, shake up, shock, shove, spring something on, stagger, start, startle, stun, throw a curve, upset
Main Entry: mar
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hurt, damage
Synonyms: bend, blemish, blight, blot, break, bruise, deface, deform, detract, ding, disfigure, foul up, harm, impair, injure, louse up, maim, mangle, mess up*, mutilate, queer*, rough up, ruin, scar, scratch, shake up, spoil, stain, sully, taint, tarnish, tweak, vitiate, warp, wreck
Antonyms: aid, heal, help
Main Entry: mistreat
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: treat badly or wrongly
Synonyms: abuse, backbite, bash, brutalize, bung up, chop, do wrong, dump on, give black eye, handle roughly, harm, injure, kick around, knock around, maltreat, maul, mess up, misuse, molest, outrage, push around, rip, rough up, roughhouse, shake up, total*, trash*, wax, wound, wrong
Antonyms: coddle, favor, pamper, pet, please, satisfy, treat well
Main Entry: misuse
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: abuse; apply wrongly
Synonyms: blow*, brutalize, corrupt, cut up, desecrate, dissipate, exploit, go through, handle roughly, ill-treat, maltreat, maul, mess up*, misapply, misemploy, mistreat, molest, outrage, pervert, profane, prostitute, run through, shake up, squander, waste, wrong
Notes: abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm
to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it
Antonyms: use correctly
Main Entry: quicken
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make faster; invigorate
Synonyms: accelerate, activate, actuate, animate, arouse, awaken, dispatch, energize, excite, expedite, galvanize, goad, grow, hasten, hurry, impel, incite, increase, innervate, innerve, inspire, kindle, liven, make haste, motivate, move, pique, precipitate, promote, refresh, revitalize, revive, rouse, shake up, speed, spring, spur, step up, stimulate, stir, strengthen, urge, vitalize, vivificate, vivify
Antonyms: dull, retard, slow, weaken
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