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adjective

Definition of shook-upnext
as in upset

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shook up

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verb

past tense of shake up
as in shocked
to cause an unpleasant surprise for the news that we had failed the auto inspection shook us up

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shook-up
  1. upset
  2. shocked
  3. troubled
  4. appalled
  5. aggrieved
  6. stunned
  7. distraught
  8. ill at ease
Adjective
  • Will the Bengals' defense finally back up Joe Burrow and company to get a win, or will the Cowboys keep their postseason hopes alive with an upset win in primetime?
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Now the Eras Tour is ending, many are understandably upset that this sense of camaraderie is coming to a close.
    Callum Booth, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of upset
Verb
  • Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest.
    Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi's arrest.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of shocked
Adjective
  • The 2017 film from director Nikolaj Arcel introduces audiences to Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor), a troubled teenager plagued by visions of a mysterious tower, a malevolent sorcerer and a lone gunslinger.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • In the weeks since the presidential election, the network’s primetime audience has fallen by about half, sparking scores of stories about a troubled operation.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of troubled
Verb
  • The Constitution’s framers would have been appalled at shielding incumbent presidents from criminal prosecution.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Several editors were appalled by the idea alone.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of appalled
Adjective
  • This belief enabled aggrieved men to see themselves as a class and a constituency for the first time.
    Theresa Iker / Made by History, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The statement that followed from Mr. Biden on Sunday offered a window into the mind-set of an aggrieved president who, in the end, could not separate his duty as a father from his half century of principled promises as a politician.
    Katie Rogers, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of aggrieved
Verb
  • Time ran out, and Bears players stood in the middle of the field stunned.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The reality is that the region is stunned by what happened.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of stunned
Adjective
  • As the war goes on Lena is distraught, not knowing anything of what has become of him, not receiving any letters.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Rebecca De Mornay starred as a twisted widow who, distraught over losing her own baby, insinuates herself into a family as their nanny, with the ultimate goal of taking the kids and the husband for herself.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of distraught
Adjective
  • On the surface, Somebody Somewhere appears to be a fish-out-of-water show, a classic story about someone drifting through a new place, rootless and ill at ease.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Homesick and ill at ease outside Russia, many were easy targets.
    Gregory Feifer, Foreign Affairs, 23 Mar. 2015
Definition of ill at ease
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