1. Moving with, producing or produced by vigorous agitation
   "winds whipped the piled leaves into churning masses";
   - churned-up
    
2. (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence
   "the river's churning current";
   - roiling, roiled, roily [N. Amer], turbulent

1. (cooking) stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
   "They churned the cream for hours to make homemade butter"
    
2. Be agitated
   "the sea was churning in the storm";
   - boil, moil [N. Amer], roil

See also: agitated

Type of: move, stir

Encyclopedia: Churning