Reform

[rɪ'fɔːm] or [rɪ'fɔrm]

Definition

(noun.) a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses; 'justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts'.

(noun.) self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; 'the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform'.

(noun.) a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices; 'the reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians'.

(verb.) change for the better; 'The lazy student promised to reform'; 'the habitual cheater finally saw the light'.

(verb.) make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices; 'reform a political system'.

(verb.) improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition; 'reform the health system in this country'.

(verb.) break up the molecules of; 'reform oil'.

(verb.) produce by cracking; 'reform gas'.

(verb.) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; 'The Church reformed me'; 'reform your conduct'.

Typist: Nathaniel--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

(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.

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

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Correct, amend, ameliorate, meliorate, make better.[2]. Remodel, form anew.

v. n. Amend, become better.

n. Reformation, amendment.

Inputed by Logan

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Amend, ameliorate, correct, rectify, better, reclaim, regenerate, remodel,reconstitute, reorganize, improve

ANT:Corrupt, vitiate, worsen, deteriorate, perpetuate, stabilitate, confirm,impair, deform, stereotype

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Definition

v.t. to form again or anew: to transform: to make better: to remove that which is objectionable from: to repair or improve: to reclaim.—v.i. to become better: to abandon evil: to be corrected or improved.—n. a forming anew: change amendment improvement: an extension or better distribution of parliamentary representation as in the Reform Bill.—adj. Refor′mable.—n. Reformā′tion the act of forming again: the act of reforming: amendment: improvement: the great religious revolution of the 16th century which gave rise to the various evangelical or Protestant organisations of Christendom.—adjs. Refor′mātive forming again or anew: tending to produce reform; Refor′mātory reforming: tending to produce reform.—n. an institution for reclaiming youths and children who have been convicted of crime.—adj. Reformed′ formed again or anew: changed: amended: improved: denoting the churches formed after the Reformation esp. those in which the Calvinistic doctrines and still more the Calvinistic polity prevail in contradistinction to the Lutheran.—ns. Refor′mer one who reforms: one who advocates political reform: one of those who took part in the Reformation of the 16th century; Refor′mist a reformer.—Reformed Presbyterians a Presbyterian denomination originating in Scotland (see Cameronian); Reform school a reformatory.

Checked by Archie

Unserious Contents or Definition

v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.

Checked by Amy

Unserious Contents or Definition

In general, a periodic epidemic, starting with marked heat, followed by a high fever, and accompanied by a flow of ink in the newspapers, a discharge of words from the face and a rush of blood to the polls, leaving the victim a chronic invalid until the next campaign. In New York, reform has been confined to a Low attempt at government.

Checker: Truman

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