| VERB | change | pasteurize, pasteurise | heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms |
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| Sounds | pae'scheray.z | |
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| Rhymes | actualize ... womanize: 266 rhymes with ayz... | |
| Meaning | heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "pasteurize milk" | |
| Synonym | pasteurise | |
| Cause to | condense, distill, distil | Undergo condensation |
| Broader | change integrity | change in physical make-up |
| Spanish | pasterizar, pasteurizar | |
| Catalan | pasteuritzar | |
| Participle | pasteurized | having been subjected to pasteurization in order to halt fermentation |
| unpasteurized | not having undergone pasteurization | |
| Nouns | 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 | |
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