churning

Meanings

• stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
• be agitated
  • "the sea was churning in the storm"
• moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation
  • "winds whipped the piled leaves into churning masses"
• (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence

Synonyms

boil, churn, churned-up, moil, roil, roiled, roiling, roily, turbulent