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

Definitions

1. transitive 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.
2. transitive verb. To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.
3. transitive verb. To shake or agitate with violence.
4. intransitive verb. To perform the operation of churning.
5. noun. a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
6. verb. stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
7. verb. be agitated

   "the sea was churning in the storm"

   Synonyms: boil, moil, roil

Synonyms

boil, moil, roil

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in churn:

runch

Common word forms

churns, churned, churner, churnful, churning, churnable

Words from these letters

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