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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To subject (a beverage or other food) to pasteurization.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To perform Pasteurization; sterilize fermented liquors, as beer or wine, by heat.
  • To subject to the process of Pasteurism.
  • To subject to the process of Pasteurization.
  • Also spelled Pasteurise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To subject to pasteurization.
  • transitive verb To treat by pasteurism.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms

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