Usually means: Heat treatment to kill bacteria.
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  1. pasteurise: Merriam-Webster
  2. pasteurise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pasteurise: Vocabulary.com
  4. pasteurise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. pasteurise: Wiktionary
  6. pasteurise: Dictionary.com
  7. Pasteurise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. pasteurise: Rhymezone
  9. pasteurise: FreeDictionary.org
  10. pasteurise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. pasteurise: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pasteurise: Encyclopedia

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  1. pasteurise: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. pasteurise: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pasteurise)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To heat food for the purpose of killing harmful organisms such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, molds, and yeasts.

Similar:
pasteurize, thermosterilize, radiopasteurize, sterilize, depyrogenate, thermoinactivate, ultraheat, calcine, cauterise, sous-vide, more...

Opposite:
contaminate, infect, spoil, taint, pollute

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Similar:
pasteurize, thermosterilize, radiopasteurize, sterilize, depyrogenate, thermoinactivate, ultraheat, calcine, cauterise, sous-vide, more...

Opposite:
contaminate, infect, spoil, taint, pollute



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