shaken

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The nice thing about Stripe is that they have really shaken up the online payments here in Australia.

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A flat shuriken resembling a spiked wheel, as opposed to the longer stick-like kind.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A flat shuriken resembling a spiked wheel, as opposed to the longer stick-like kind.

adjective

In a state of shock or trauma.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shaken.

noun

A flat shuriken resembling a spiked wheel, as opposed to the longer stick-like kind.

adjective

In a state of shock or trauma.

Example sentences

The nice thing about Stripe is that they have really shaken up the online payments here in Australia.

Once the bugs are shaken out of shared libraries, plugins become a pretty logical (and hopefully small) next step.

That, along with the shift to digital, has shaken the industry's dynamic into something way more unpredictable.

At that point you've reached equilibrium, so you might as well have saved yourself 5 minutes and shaken it.

When government conspires with business to create a shortage it needs to be shaken up.

The 2008 financial crisis has shaken people's faith in housing as a safe investment.

Here's a guy who is now living on the street and, for all that is known, has his private life shaken up.

Occupy could have really shaken things up with the right leadership in place.

Widely used open source projects get shaken out for memory corruption and XSS.

Cable TV is a terrible service and I'm glad to see that it's getting shaken up.

A stirred martini will be clearer than a shaken one.

Phyllis explained to me that the problem with tilt-ups is lack of bracing strength - they're just not designed to be shaken back and forth for a long time.

Quote examples

A shaken martini sucks but I wouldn't call it "ropey".

"ask again later" - Computer needs to be shaken vigorously and restarted.

I think the only part where you're wrong is in saying cable TV is getting "shaken up." I'm pretty sure cable TV as we knew it is over.

On the contrary, it is in exactly opposite - it is to refute and remove everything "mental" to see what remains, something which cannot be shaken by mere speculations or dismissed by any experience.