Synonyms for churning
churn·ing

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1. churning, churned-upadjective

   moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation

   "winds whipped the piled leaves into churning masses"; "a car stuck in the churned-up mud"

   Synonyms:
   roily, turbulent, churned-up, roiled, roiling

   Antonyms:
   unagitated

2. churning, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulentadjective

   (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence

   "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids"

   Synonyms:
   churned-up, annoyed, roiling, riotous, irritated, pissed off, troubled, turbulent, nettled, miffed, tumultuous, disruptive, peeved, steamed, roiled, stung, riled, roily, pissed

   Antonyms:
   unagitated

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1. List of paraphrases for "churning":

   turbulence

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1. Tracey Emin:

   I have had the title for about 15 years but I have never used it. A couple of years ago, my mum died, and I have cried so much in all my life and I thought this is the time to use this title, essentially the show is about big emotional moments in my life, good or bad, hell or happy, this kind of combination of this big emotional churning, reworking, awakening, a big emotional timebomb that has been let off in the gallery.

2. Robin Green:

   I am...blood. That primordial ooze. Not out there, listeners, in here. Inside this skin we wear, it only lets us think we're something else-- nice clean brains, little talking computers running around in the pursuit of happiness. We pierce this skin and what do we see Warm ooze, protoplasm churning and jesting, defecating, pulsating, life, death.

3. Rich Greenfield:

   Churning off of a service once meant finding the phone number of your cable operator, navigating an automated menu and waiting on hold, we now live in a world where with a couple of clicks of your finger on your phone, all of the friction from cancellation is gone.

4. Jennifer Collins:

   My stomach just starts just churning talking about it. I'm nervous.

5. Chuck Schumer:

   We’re facing a situation where anyone—a felon, a terrorist—can open a gun factory in their garage and the weapons they make will be undetectable. It’s stomach-churning.