Thesaurus: reform

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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. n. a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses
5. n. a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices
6. n. self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice
7. v. make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices
8. v. bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
9. v. produce by cracking
10. v. break up the molecules of
11. v. improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition
12. v. change for the better