churning meaning and definition

CHURNING adjective

Definition of churning (adjective)

1. 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: churned-up
2. (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence
   • "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids"
   • synonyms: roiled, roiling, roily, turbulent