PASTEURIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pasteurize mean? 

• PASTEURIZE (verb)
  The verb PASTEURIZE has 1 sense:

1. heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms

  Familiarity information: PASTEURIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASTEURIZE (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

pasteurise; pasteurize

Context example:

pasteurize milk

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)

 Context examples 

Fructoselysine is common in processed food, including ultra-pasteurized milk, pasta, chocolate and cereals.

(Human Gut Microbe Could Make Processed Foods Healthier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)