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pasteurize
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Word definitions for pasteurize in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms; "pasteurize milk" [syn: pasteurise ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To heat food for the purpose of killing harmful organisms such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, molds, and yeasts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pasteurize \Pas*teur"ize\, v. t. To subject to pasteurization. To treat by pasteurism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1881, with -ize , after Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and bacteriologist, who invented the process of heating food, milk, wine, etc., to kill most of the micro-organisms in it; distinguished from sterilization , which involves killing all of ...
Usage examples of pasteurize.
Immeasurable, because in the great exemplars the bullshit is so artfully mingled and intertwined with actual received wisdom that its essential nature is deracinated and pasteurized.
On the back of the half-gallon carton of homogenized, pasteurized, vitamin D-fortified milk there are two mugshots of smiling children, gone, missing.
The store's dairy selection was pasteurized to the extent that everything tasted scalded.
The same applies to most of the food we eat---white bread with all the roughage removed, refined sugar with all the goodness machined out of it, pasteurized milk which has had most of the vitamins boiled away, everything overcooked and denaturized.
Ever since Wendy stopped breast-feeding, the Gearys have provided Susan with pasteurized milk from their goats.
There were skinny, naked kids, and you couldn't even buy pasteurized milk.
It wasn't the pasteurized, homogenized two-percent milk he was used to, but it was white, wet and helped the cereal go down.