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churn·ing

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Princeton's WordNet2.7 / 3 votes

  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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "churning":

    turbulence

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#16282pissed
#19647turbulence
#19872annoyed
#20272turbulent
#20864disruptive
#28872steamed
#31274irritated
#42888churning
#44626stung
#46627tumultuous
#81821miffed
#83140riotous
#89626riled
#100322peeved
#124553roiling
#197879roiled
#316950nettled

How to use churning in a sentence?

  1. Jennifer Collins:

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

  2. 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.

  3. Ken Polcari:

    There is nothing really to drive sentiment one way or the other that is going to change people's perceptions on anything at the moment so therefore you are just getting this churning back and forth.

  4. James Marton:

    Children churning on and off public coverage are less likely to have a usual source of medical care and that can result in worse health outcomes, including a higher likelihood of preventable hospitalizations.

  5. 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.


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