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shook-up

adjective as in addled

adjective as in shaken

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"We are all a bit shook-up," she said.

From BBC

It follows the publication of a government white paper on gambling in April, which shook-up the sector.

From BBC

At 21, he wrote “Mixed-Up, Shook-Up Girl” for Patty & the Emblems, which reached the Top 20.

“Girls will be boys/and boys will be girls,” he sang, before emphasizing “it’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world/except for Lola.”

Finally, just when all that digesting and the attention was slowly turning back to the game—a reasonably close contest with the Raptors always on the outside looking in—Kyle Lowry, a man, like dearly departed DeMar Derozan and Dwayne Casey, now hailed as a "Canadian Icon," despite being dismembered by the media for not being championship caliber this time last year, was demoted once more, bricking a potential game-winning three off the side of the backboard and uncorking a new, very shook-up bottle of Twitter abuse in the process:

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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