churn vs fume

churn

noun
  • A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter. 

  • A milk churn. 

  • The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers. 

  • Cyclic activity that achieves nothing. 

  • The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider. 

  • Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company. 

verb
  • To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion. 

  • To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake. 

  • To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits. 

  • To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream. 

  • To stop using a company's product or service. 

  • To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions. 

  • To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is. 

fume

noun
  • A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state. 

  • Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination. 

  • Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control. 

  • The incense of praise; inordinate flattery. 

  • A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale. 

verb
  • To apply or offer incense to. 

  • To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints. 

  • To pass off in fumes or vapours. 

  • To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied. 

  • To express or feel great anger. 

  • To emit fumes. 

How often have the words churn and fume occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )