intransitive verb. To improve by alteration, correction of error, or removal of defects; put into a better form or condition.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To abolish abuse or malpractice in.

intransitive verb. To put an end to (an abuse or wrong).

intransitive verb. To induce or persuade (a person) to give up harmful or immoral practices; cause to adopt a better way of life.

intransitive verb. To subject (hydrocarbons) to cracking.

intransitive verb. To change for the better.

noun. Action to improve or correct what is wrong or defective in something.

noun. An instance of this; an improvement.

adjective. Relating to or favoring reform.

adjective. Of or relating to Reform Judaism.

noun. Any proceeding which either brings back a better order of things or reconstructs the present order to advantage; amendment of what is defective, vicious, depraved, or corrupt; a change from worse to better; reformation: as, to introduce reforms in sanitary matters; to be an advocate of reform.

noun. Synonyms Amendment, etc. See reformation.

To form again or anew; remake; reconstruct; renew.

To restore to the natural or regular order or arrangement: as, to reform broken or scattered troops.

To restore to a former and better state, or to bring from a bad to a good state; change from worse to better; improve by alteration, rearrangement, reconstruction, or abolition of defective parts or imperfect conditions, or by substitution of something better; amend; correct: as, to reform, a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners of morals; to reform the corrupt orthography of English or French.

To abandon, remove, or abolish for something better.

To mend, in a physical sense; repair.

To correct.

Synonyms Improve, Better, etc. (see amend), repair, reclaim, remodel.

To form again; get into order or line again; resume order, as troops or a procession.

To abandon that which is evil or corrupt and return to that which is good; change from worse to better; be amended or redeemed.

intransitive verb. To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits.

transitive 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

noun. Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation

noun. See under Civil.

noun. acts of Parliament passed in 1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular representation in Parliament.

noun. a school established by a state or city government, for the confinement, instruction, and reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habits.

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

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.

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.

verb. To form again or in a new configuration.

noun. a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices

noun. self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice

verb. improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition

verb. bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

verb. break up the molecules of

verb. change for the better

verb. produce by cracking

noun. a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses

verb. make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices

"The truth is that what we\'ve been calling health reform doesn\'t really \ "reform\" the system at all."

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