Meanings
verbchurn up (third-person singular simple present churns up, present participle churning up, simple past and past participle churned up)
present singular third person churns up · participle present churning up · participle past churned up · past churned up
- transitiveTo make the ground uneven, generally unintentionally.
Just the footfall will churn up the wet turf.
- transitiveTo produce by churning.
For dessert, I churned up some vanilla ice cream.
Synonyms & antonyms
verbcause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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