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all shook up
adjective as in overwrought
Strongest match
Weak matches
- affected
- agitated
- beside oneself
- crazy
- distracted
- emotional
- excitable
- fired-up
- flipped-out
- freaked-out
- histrionic
- histrionical
- hot under collar
- hot-and-bothered
- hyper
- in a state
- nervous
- neurotic
- on edge
- overexcited
- overstrung
- overworked
- spent
- steamed up
- stirred
- strung-out
- tense
- tired
- uneasy
- unstrung
- uptight
- weary
- wired
- worked-up
- worn
- wound-up
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Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
It’s now or never for this week’s Slate News Quiz, but don’t get all shook up.
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Democrats are so accustomed to losing statewide elections in blood-red Mississippi that they hardly get all shook up about a candidate for governor anymore.
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Was close to leaving rivals all shook up before fading to finish sixth in last year's Irish Grand National.
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This is where things get all shook up.
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“We’re all shook up by this event,” resident Reyna Diaz, 67, said through tears.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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