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PASTEURIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they pasteurize ... he / she / it pasteurizes
Past simple: pasteurized
Past participle: pasteurized
-ing form: pasteurizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms
Example:
pasteurize milk
Synonyms:
pasteurise; pasteurize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "pasteurize" is one way to...):
change integrity (change in physical make-up)
Cause:
condense; distil; distill (undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
Pasteur (French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895))
pasteurization (partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food)
