churning

Plural: churnings

Verb

• stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
• be agitated
  • "the sea was churning in the storm"
• present participle and gerund of churn

Adjective Satellite

• moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation
  • "winds whipped the piled leaves into churning masses"
• (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence

Noun

• The amount of butter produced in one churning session.
• The act by which something is churned.
• The quantity of butter prepared (by churning) at one time.

Examples

• The CHURNING of ideas in his mind finally produced a high-scoring word.

Synonyms

boil, churn, churned-up, moil, roil, roiled, roiling, roily, turbulent

Anagrams of churning