Synonyms:
churning, churned-up
Meaning: 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:
churning, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent
Meaning: (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence; "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids"
Usage examples
A large churning may be more effectually cleared of the butter-milk in a few minutes, than in the old way in an hour.
He clutched its slippery top with both hands, releasing Buck, and above the roar of the churning water shouted: "Go, Buck!
Beneath us the green tumult churning, above us the cavernous gloom; Around us, swift twisting and turning, the black, sullen walls of a tomb. We spun like a chip in a mill-race; our hearts hammered under the test; Then--oh, the relief on each chill face!--we soared into sunlight and rest.
When Grace was a young woman of twenty-three a terrible storm burst suddenly upon the coast and in the twinkling of an eye the reefs about the lighthouse were a sea of churning foam, while the great waves racing in from the ocean thundered so mightily at its base that it seemed as though they must tear it from its foundations and sweep it away.