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excessive | churn |
Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.
To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
* Addison
(figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
* '>citation
To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
A vessel used for churning.
(telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
(telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers, expressed by the formula Customer Quits/Customer base .
As a adjective excessive
is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.As a verb churn is
to agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.As a noun churn is
a vessel used for churning.excessive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "I personally consider putting a wide vibrato on a single 16th triplet note at 160 beats per minute rather excessive , nay even stupid."
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* insufficient * deficientDerived terms
* excessive numberchurn
English
Verb
(en verb)- Now the cream is churned to make butter.
- Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.
- The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge.
- I was so nervous my stomach was churning .
Derived terms
* churn outNoun
(en noun)- a butter churn