Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pauperization

2 senses of pauperization

Sense 1
indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization -- (a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless")
       => poverty, poorness, impoverishment -- (the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions)

Sense 2
pauperization, pauperisation, impoverishment -- (the act of making someone poor)
       => privation, deprivation -- (act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights")