churn up

1. 1.

   cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of

   “The pornographic pictures sickened us”

   Synonymsdisgustrevoltnauseatesicken

   Broaderrepel

   Narrowershock

Questions about churn up

What does churn up mean?

churn up means "cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of".

What is another word for churn up?

Close synonyms include disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is churn up a common word?

churn up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.