reform

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French réforme

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(US) IPA: /ɹiˈfɔrm/, /ɹəˈfɔrm/

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reform (plural reforms)

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

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reform (third-person singular simple present reforms, present participle reforming, simple past and past participle reformed)

  1. 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. 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.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.
    This product contains reformed meat.
    The pop group reformed for one final tour.

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reform c.

  1. a reform

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