Pasteurize
['pɑːstʃəraɪz;-stjə-;'pæs-] or ['pæstʃəraɪz]
Definition
(verb.) heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms; 'pasteurize milk'.
Inputed by Cleo--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To subject to pasteurization.
(v. t.) To treat by pasteurism.
Editor: Sallust
Examples
- A more extensive test--seven hundred hectoliters, of which six hundred and fifty had been pasteurized--was carried out on the frigate la Sibylle with sat isfactory results. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Scalded or Pasteurized milk saves the lives of scores of babies, because the germs of summer complaint which lurk in poor milk are killed and rendered harmless in the process of scalding. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Pasteurizing apparatus, an arrangement by which milk is conveniently heated to destroy disease germs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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