Dictionary Entry
churn
churn is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses
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- 1transitive verb
A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.
- 2transitive verb
To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.
- 3transitive verb
To shake or agitate with violence.
- 4intransitive verb
To perform the operation of churning.
- 5noun
a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
- 6verb
stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
- 7verb
be agitated
"the sea was churning in the storm"
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