PULVERIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pulverization mean? 

• PULVERIZATION (noun)
  The noun PULVERIZATION has 3 senses:

1. a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized

2. the act of grinding to a powder or dust

3. annihilation by pulverizing something

  Familiarity information: PULVERIZATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PULVERIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

powder; pulverisation; pulverization

Hypernyms ("pulverization" is a kind of...):

solid (matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure)

Derivation:

pulverize (become powder or dust)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of grinding to a powder or dust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

grind; mill; pulverisation; pulverization

Hypernyms ("pulverization" is a kind of...):

compaction; crunch; crush (the act of crushing)

Derivation:

pulverize (make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Annihilation by pulverizing something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

pulverisation; pulverization

Hypernyms ("pulverization" is a kind of...):

annihilation; obliteration (destruction by annihilating something)

Derivation:

pulverize (destroy completely)

 Context examples 

The ground now covering all that could perish of my departed wife, I waited only for what Mr. Micawber called the “final pulverization of Heep”; and for the departure of the emigrants.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)