Shake up
Shake up verb - To cause an unpleasant surprise for.
Usage example: the news that we had failed the auto inspection shook us up
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Unnerve and Shake up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/shake_up/unnerve
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