Definitions for churning

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churning churn·ing

Spelling: [chur-ning]

IPA: /ˈtʃɜr nɪŋ/

Churning is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in churning (cghinnru).

Definitions for churning

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that churns.
2. the butter made at any one time.
3. a container or machine in which cream or milk is agitated to make butter.
4. any of various containers or machines similar in shape or action to a butter churn, as a device for mixing beverages.
5. British. a large milk can.
6. an act of churning stocks by a stockbroker.

Verb phrases

1. churn out, to produce mechanically, hurriedly, or routinely:

verb (used with object)

1. to agitate in order to make into butter:
2. to make (butter) by the agitation of cream.
3. to shake or agitate with violence or continued motion:
4. to turn over and over in the mind:
5. (of a stockbroker) to trade (a customer's securities) excessively in order to earn more in commissions.

verb (used without object)

1. to operate a churn.
2. to move or shake in agitation, as a liquid or any loose matter:
3. to be changing rapidly or be in a confused state:
4. to have a queasy feeling, as from anxiety or disgust:
5. (of a stockbroker) to engage in the practice of churning.

Origin of churning

First recorded in 1400-50, churning is from the late Middle English word chyrnynge. See churn, -ing¹

Examples for churning

Or fast-fashion chains like Zara and H&M churning out runway imitations.

But the proposition had eventually broken apart in the churning, acidic stomach of Washington politics.

There is all this churning violence out there of which probably 90 percent of Americans are barely aware.

The proper temperature for churning ranges from 58° to 62° Fahrenheit.

Being as destructive as the poison which was created during the churning of the Amrita.

He will charge the boat, and nothing but the churning propeller will keep him from ramming the boat.

That's the churning of the nightjar going up to Ballure glen.

It's easy to slam the studios for churning out crass sequels and safe remakes and endlessly rebootable superhero pictures.

She heard the clatter of pattens in the room below; it was Nancy churning in the dairy.

Families that do build petty empires flame out, but the grand empire ruled by our churning elites burns on, evidently, forever.