Thesaurus / shake down
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synonyms for shake down
- delve
- find
- go into
- retrieve
- search
- sift
- uncover
- unearth
- expose
- extricate
- inquire
- probe
- prospect
- research
- root
- bring to light
- come across
- come up with
- dig down
- look into
- search high and low
- turn inside out
- turn upside down
- bring out
- evoke
- extort
- extract
- obtain
- wrest
- wring
- badger
- bite
- bring
- cause
- derive
- educe
- evince
- evolve
- exact
- fetch
- milk
- rattle
- shake
- squeeze
- arm-twist
- bring forth
- bring to light
- call forth
- give rise to
- put muscle on
- put the arm on
- compel
- extort
- extract
- impose
- wrest
- assess
- bleed
- call
- challenge
- claim
- coerce
- command
- constrain
- force
- gouge
- levy
- oblige
- pinch
- postulate
- require
- requisition
- solicit
- squeeze
- wrench
- wring
- insist upon
- lean on
- put on
- analyze
- examine
- explore
- assay
- diagnose
- probe
- prove
- research
- sample
- scrutinize
- search
- speculate
- study
- try
- venture
- verify
- weigh
- fool with
- futz around
- mess around
- play around with
- practice with
- put to the test
- try on
- try on for size
- try out
- coerce
- elicit
- exact
- extract
- wrest
- wring
- bleed
- bully
- clip
- demand
- educe
- evince
- fleece
- force
- get
- gouge
- ice
- milk
- obtain
- pinch
- secure
- skin
- soak
- squeeze
- stick
- sting
- hold up
- make pay through nose
- pull one's leg
- put screws to
- put the arm on
- exercise
- hone
- prepare
- rehearse
- study
- train
- warm up
- work
- work out
- discipline
- dress
- drill
- habituate
- iterate
- polish
- recite
- sharpen
- become seasoned
- build up
- do again
- dress rehearse
- dry run
- go over
- run through
- try out
- tune up
- walk through
- comb
- gut
- loot
- pillage
- plunder
- raid
- rob
- scour
- seize
- take away
- appropriate
- despoil
- explore
- ferret
- filch
- hunt
- investigate
- lift
- maraud
- overhaul
- peer
- pilfer
- pinch
- poach
- probe
- pry
- purloin
- rake
- rape
- ravish
- rifle
- rummage
- rustle
- sack
- scan
- scrutinize
- search
- seek
- sound
- spoil
- spy
- steal
- strip
- thieve
- go over with a fine-tooth comb
- go through
- lay waste
- leave no stone unturned
- look all over for
- look high and low
- look into
- make off with
- comb
- forage
- poke
- scour
- delve
- disarrange
- disarray
- disorder
- disorganize
- disrupt
- disturb
- examine
- explore
- fish
- grub
- hunt
- jumble
- rake
- root
- seek
- shake
- spy
- toss
- beat the bushes
- dig out
- ferret out
- leave no stone unturned
- look high and low
- mess up
- mix up
- search high heaven
- turn inside out
- turn upside down
- cheat
- bilk
- bleed
- chisel
- coerce
- constrain
- defraud
- do
- exact
- extort
- extract
- force
- oppress
- pinch
- pressurize
- ream
- squeeze
- wrench
- wrest
- wring
- hold a knife to
- put screws to
- check
- comb
- examine
- explore
- go through
- hunt
- hunt for
- inspect
- investigate
- look
- probe
- ransack
- scan
- scour
- scout
- scrutinize
- seek
- sift
- beat
- ferret
- forage
- frisk
- grope
- grub
- inquire
- prospect
- pry
- quest
- rake
- root
- rummage
- study
- beat about
- cast about
- chase after
- go in quest of
- go over with a fine-tooth comb
- gun for
- leave no stone unturned
- look for
- look high and low
- look over
- poke into
- rifle through
- run down
- smell around
- track down
- turn inside out
- turn upside down
- extract
- pinch
- wring
- bleed
- extort
- milk
- oppress
- pressure
- pressurize
- wrench
- bring pressure to bear
- eke out
- lean on
- put screws to
- analyze
- assess
- check
- confirm
- demonstrate
- investigate
- prove
- question
- try
- verify
- assay
- experiment
- inquire
- substantiate
- validate
- experimentalize
- give a tryout
- look into
- make a trial run
- match up
- prove out
- put to the test
- run idea by someone
- run it up a flagpole
- see how it flies
- see how wind blows
- send up a balloon
- stack up
- try on
- try on for size
- try out
- draw out
- extort
- extract
- squeeze
- wrench
- wrest
- choke
- coerce
- compress
- exact
- force
- gouge
- hurt
- pain
- pinch
- pry
- push
- screw
- strain
- strangle
- throttle
- turn
On this page you'll find 515 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shake down, such as: badger, coerce, extort, bleed, compel, and demand.
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use shake down in a sentence
And I am not sure even now that when these two things are found in one and the same woman they ever really shake down together.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EVIDENCEOLIVER ONIONSThe hair should be so securely put up that it will not shake down, and that the hair-pins will not work out.
HORSEMANSHIP FOR WOMENTHEODORE HOE MEADThe hermit said unto the deer, O deer, why didst thou shake down the seed?
LAOS FOLK-LORE OF FARTHER INDIAKATHERINE NEVILLE FLEESONI often climb into the trees in Charlotte's orchard, and shake down the pears that hang on the highest branches.
THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHERJ.W. VON GOETHEIf we once thoroughly understood each other we'd shake down better and go our ways in peace.
MARRIED LIFEMAY EDGINTONThe way he carried on you would think they were going to shake down half of yonder cliff.
THE ROVER BOYS ON A TOURARTHUR M. WINFIELDHe put Jonathan through his sea-catechism in the same way, and then said we could have supper and a shake-down for the night.
THE BOOK OF THE BUSHGEORGE DUNDERDALEMy improvised mattress would not shake down properly, while the knapsack beneath my head acquired a sudden and spiteful hardness.
'NEATH VERDUN, AUGUST-OCTOBER, 1914MAURICE GENEVOIXAt the Revolution the insurgents tried to shake down its fine tall pillars; the marks are still to be seen.
HISTORIC PARISJETTA S. WOLFFHe politely declined a 'shake-down', saying he had a comfortable camp, and preferred being out this weather.
JOE WILSON AND HIS MATESHENRY LAWSONWORDS RELATED TO SHAKE DOWN
- arm-twisting
- badgering
- biting
- bringing
- bringing forth
- bringing out
- bringing to light
- calling forth
- causing
- deriving
- educing
- evincing
- evoking
- evolving
- exacting
- extorting
- extracting
- fetching
- giving rise to
- milking
- obtaining
- putting muscle on
- putting the arm on
- rattling
- shaking
- shaking down
- squeezing
- wresting
- wringing
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.