pasteurized 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of pasteurizednext
as in uncontaminated

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pasteurized

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verb

past tense of pasteurize
as in filtered

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  1. uncontaminated
  2. undiluted
  3. refined
  4. pure
  5. unadulterated
  6. distilled
  7. unmixed
  8. untainted
Adjective
  • Her outfits are mercifully uncontaminated by everyday labor.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The earliest American advertisements for milk, from the 1840s, emphasized its bucolic origins and uncontaminated contents, using imagery of rolling hills and words such as wholesome, fresh, and unadulterated.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of uncontaminated
Adjective
  • His Benji is like a ball of pure, undiluted charisma, joyfully inquiring about strangers’ lives and leading his fellow tourists on a photo shoot in front of the Warsaw Uprising Monument.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Using undiluted eucalyptus oil topically can cause neurotoxicity (nervous system damage).
    Merve Ceylan, Health, 13 Oct. 2024
Definition of undiluted
Verb
  • They were also refined in the heat of battle through some of the period’s major conflicts, including the Korean, Vietnam, and Middle Eastern wars.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The wider leg makes these leather pants equal parts rebellious and refined, and they can be dressed up or down and worn from day to night.
    Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of refined
Adjective
  • And there definitely was a party element to the occasion, with guests moving to the sounds of the DJ, performing line dances with pure joy.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • But scientists didn’t figure out how to isolate, extract, and ingest pure DMT on its own until 1956, which branched the drug off from ayahuasca into its own history.
    Oshan Jarow, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of pure
Adjective
  • With the earlier Mummy, Fisher and Sangster distilled what works best about the monster movie genre into a compact 90 minutes of unadulterated fun.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Sensibly Surreal The Bravia 9 is an unadulterated brightness powerhouse.
    Ryan Waniata, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2024
Definition of unadulterated
Verb
  • The vodka is distilled in copper stills, which help remove impurities and enhance the spirit’s clean, crisp flavors.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The Discovery Series highlights the art of blending, by combining a rare collection of four exemplary whiskies, aged 6 to 14 years, including a four-grain recipe estate-distilled at Bardstown Bourbon Company.
    Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of distilled
Adjective
  • The seemingly unmixed demo made many social media users speculate whether the song was AI-generated before noted hip-hop commentator DJ Akademiks eventually played it — noticeably with some tweaks, like the omission of a line about P. Diddy and a different beat — on his livestream.
    Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 7 May 2024
  • Monet’s unmixed dabs of paint are laid down on the surface of the canvas, just like the spots of fractured light of the orange sun quivering behind gray fog and flickering across the blue-green surface of the watery harbor at dawn.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
Definition of unmixed
Adjective
  • No scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The White House is untainted by scandal, the incumbent party is charismatic.
    Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2024
Definition of untainted
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