Usually means: Heating food to kill bacteria.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. pasteurizing: Merriam-Webster
  2. pasteurizing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pasteurizing: Vocabulary.com
  4. pasteurizing: Wordnik
  5. pasteurizing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pasteurizing: Wiktionary
  7. pasteurizing: Dictionary.com
  8. pasteurizing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. pasteurizing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pasteurizing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pasteurizing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. pasteurizing: Medical dictionary

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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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