Usually means: Heat treatment to kill bacteria.
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  1. pasteurize: Merriam-Webster
  2. pasteurize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pasteurize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pasteurize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pasteurize: Wordnik
  6. pasteurize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pasteurize: Wiktionary
  8. pasteurize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pasteurize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pasteurize: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. pasteurize: Dictionary.com
  12. pasteurize: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. pasteurize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Pasteurize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Pasteurize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. pasteurize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. pasteurize: Rhymezone
  18. pasteurize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pasteurize: FreeDictionary.org
  20. pasteurize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. pasteurize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. pasteurize: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. pasteurize: Vocabulary.com

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  1. pasteurize: Encyclopedia

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  1. pasteurize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. pasteurize: Medical dictionary

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  1. pasteurize: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pasteurize: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pasteurized as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pasteurize)

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

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