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Definition of Reform

1. Verb. Make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices. "Reform a political system"

2. Noun. A change for the better as a result of correcting abuses. "Justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts"

3. Verb. Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one. "Reform your conduct"

4. Noun. A campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices. "The reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians"

5. Verb. Produce by cracking. "Reform gas"

6. Noun. Self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice. "The family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform"

7. Verb. Break up the molecules of. "Reform oil"

8. Verb. Improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition. "Reform the health system in this country"

9. Verb. Change for the better. "The habitual cheater finally saw the light"

Definition of Reform

1. v. t. To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.

2. v. i. To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.

3. n. Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.

4. v. t. & i. To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or to take a new form; as, to re- form the line after a charge.

Definition of Reform

1. Noun. Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government. ¹

2. Verb. To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals. ¹

3. Verb. To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a person of settled habits of vice will seldom reform. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reform

1. to change to a better state [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reform

reforestation reforestations reforested reforesting reforestization reforestize reforestized reforestizing reforests reforge

reforged reforger reforgers reforges reforging reform (current term) reform-minded reform movement reform school reform schools

reformabilities reformability reformable reformade reformades reformado reformadoes reformados reformalize reformalized

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