Meaning

1 senses

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

    heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms

Origin

Borrowed from French pasteuriser. From Louis Pasteur, the inventor of the process, + -ise.

Borrowed from French pasteuriser. From Louis Pasteur, the inventor of the process, + -ise.

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Forms

pasteurises, pasteurising, pasteurised, pasteurised
Base formpasteurise · to pasteurise
3rd person singularpasteurises
Present participlepasteurising
Past simplepasteurised
Past participlepasteurised

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypasteurise
he, she, itpasteurises

Past simpleLesson

all personspasteurised

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pasteurised
he, she, ithas pasteurised

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pasteurise

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms:pasteurize

Word family

1 related words
Relatedpasteurisation

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
pastaA2pastepastelpasteurizepastimepastorB2
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