What is the meaning of churning?

verb

  • Stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter.
  • Be agitated.
    • usage: "the sea was churning in the storm"

adjective

  • Moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation.
    • usage: "winds whipped the piled leaves into churning masses"; "a car stuck in the churned-up mud"
  • Of a liquid. ( agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence)
    • usage: "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids"
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