churning

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churning

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of churn

noun churnings

  1. The act by which something is churned. Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core.
  2. The quantity of butter prepared (by churning) at one time.

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Closest in meaning: roiling, roily, turbulent, agitated, churned-up, roiled, turbulence, curdling, trituration, chilling, grinding, rolling boil, crudening, rinsing, chylification, turbulation

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@misc{churning_2026,
  title = {churning},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/churning},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}