PASTEURISE

pasteurize, pasteurise

(verb) heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms; “pasteurize milk”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

pasteurise (third-person singular simple present pasteurises, present participle pasteurising, simple past and past participle pasteurised)

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

Anagrams

• septuaries

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

19 April 2025

CATCH

(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”


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Coffee Trivia

Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.

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