Churn

Quick meaning: Churn is a verb meaning (transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.

Meaning

(transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
2. (intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
3. (business, of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.
4. (finance) To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
5. (Internet slang) To digest.
6. (informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
7. (US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.

Example Sentences

a butter churn

no-churn ice cream

Now the cream is churned to make butter.

Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.

Word Forms

• churns
• churning
• churned

Synonyms for churn

Depending on context, synonyms include heave, roil, boil, moil.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include roil, moil, boil, agitate, rollover, revolving.

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