verb
- Make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices.
- usage: "reform a political system"
- synonyms: reform
- Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one.
- usage: "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct"
- synonyms: reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify
- Produce by cracking.
- usage: "reform gas"
- synonyms: reform
- Break up the molecules of.
- usage: "reform oil"
- synonyms: reform
- Improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition.
- usage: "reform the health system in this country"
- synonyms: reform
- Change for the better.
- usage: "The lazy student promised to reform"; "the habitual cheater finally saw the light"
- synonyms: reform, straighten out, see the light
adjective
- Of or relating to the body of Protestant Christianity arising during the Reformation; used of some Protestant churches especially Calvinist as distinct from Lutheran.
- usage: "Dutch Reformed theology"
- Caused to abandon an evil manner of living and follow a good one.
- usage: "a reformed drunkard"
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