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1. Moving with, producing or produced by vigorous agitation
   "winds whipped the piled leaves into churning masses";
   - churned-up
    
2. (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence
   "the river's churning current";
   - roiling, roiled, roily [N. Amer], turbulent

1. (cooking) stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
    
2. Be agitated
   "the sea was churning in the storm";
   - boil, moil [N. Amer], roil

See also: agitated

Type of: move, stir

Encyclopedia: Churning