If you are shaken up or shook up by an unpleasant experience, it makes you feel shocked and upset, and unable to think calmly or clearly. The jockey was shaken up when he was thrown twice from his horse yesterday He was in the car when those people died. That really shook him up
If someone shakes up something such as an organization, an institution, or a profession, they make major changes to it. The government wanted to reform the institutions, to shake up the country Shareholders are preparing to shake things up in the boardrooms of America. see also shake-up
stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"