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churn up

v. cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken]

Usage examples of "churn up".

She could churn up the subsurface, murder people, and destroy armies, but sending one message to her daughter put her out of commission and ruined her ability to do sorcery.

The tires suddenly churn up clouds of pale blue smoke and appear to stutter on the pavement.

Cast a light in the darkness, don't just churn up the same old sediment at the bottom of the river.

Tom Krome roiled the water to churn up more soap bubbles, in a futile effort to conceal his shriveled cock.

If he swam freestyle, he would make it back in time, but he would also make a lot of noise and churn up the water in the process.

Sometimes Sharpe could see the tongue of dark-red fire streaking towards him in the cloud's heart, and then the lead-grey stroke of a ball arcing towards him in the sky, and once he saw the madly spiralling wisp of smoke left by the burning fuse of a shell, but every time the shots went wide or else fell short to churn up a dusty patch of earth.

On their own, talking to themselves, they churn up many new ideas, and criticize them systematically.

He drove off the road, slowing so the tires wouldn't churn up the ground, easing the heavy vehicle into the trees.

Patches of ugly reddish sand continued to churn up around the Great North Bay and at a point in Sligo that bordered Freetown.

The men were enjoined to drop their oars as quietly as possible into the water at each stroke, and to row deeply, as having the vessel in tow they would churn up the water unless they did so.

And nervousness that was beginning to churn up through his subconscious, like all of them, all disquieted by Greg and the infamous gland.