Definition of "pasteurize" []

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

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• "Fail to properly sterilize your containers or thoroughly pasteurize your produce and you may be rewarded with a pantry full of bottled botulism: "When you make a mistake with canning," Mr. Meyer warns, "you can get you and your family very sick.""
• "A federal judge this week tossed out a lawsuit aimed at blocking new rules from the Department of Agriculture requiring growers to pasteurize their almonds."
• "In order to make your ice cream from scratch, you have to pasteurize your base, so that's kind of the step that most people don't do."