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[ chur-ning ] / ˈtʃɜr nɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR churning ON THESAURUS.COM
nounthe act of a person or thing that churns. the butter made at any one time. Origin of churningFirst recorded in 1400–50, churning is from the late Middle English word chyrnynge.See churn, -ing1 Words nearby churningchuringa, churl, churlish, churn, churn drill, churning, churn molding, churn out, churr, churrasco, churrigueresque Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for churningOr fast-fashion chains like Zara and H&M churning out runway imitations. The Big Business of Fashion Counterfeits|Lizzie Crocker|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST There is all this churning violence out there of which probably 90 percent of Americans are barely aware. Ebola and America’s Childish Narcissism|Michael Tomasky|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST But the proposition had eventually broken apart in the churning, acidic stomach of Washington politics. Lake Bacon: The Story of The Man Who Wanted Us to Eat Mississippi Hippos|Jon Mooallem|August 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST Families that do build petty empires flame out, but the grand empire ruled by our churning elites burns on, evidently, forever. Can We Divorce Our Elites?|James Poulos|April 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It's easy to slam the studios for churning out crass sequels and safe remakes and endlessly rebootable superhero pictures. ‘Noah’ Review: An Ambitious, Flawed Biblical Tale That You Have to See|Andrew Romano|March 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST As he did so, a storm of shot and shell came spluttering around, churning the water up as if huge hailstones were falling into it. Under the Star-Spangled Banner|F. S. Brereton I mean to say you have been giving him a good feed of milk out of the bottle, and now you have been an hour churning it! Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884|Various Sixty years ago, when grandpa was a boy, he had a dog called Romeo, who was made to do the work of churning butter. The Nursery, February 1878, Vol. XXIII, No. 2|Various He felt a little thrill as he looked over and saw the churning mass and thought that in two years he would stand there and wait. Stover at Yale|Owen Johnson The ocean was whipped up into a milk-white foam and was dashing and churning in all directions. Dave Porter in the South Seas|Edward Stratemeyer
British Dictionary definitions for churning
nounthe quantity of butter churned at any one time the act, process, or effect of someone or something that churns Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to churningswirl, bubble, simmer, boil, froth, convulse, foam, jolt, agitate, seethe, toss, ferment, moil, stir up |