reform
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French réforme
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(US) IPA: /ɹiˈfɔrm/, /ɹəˈfɔrm/
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)m
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reform (plural reforms)
- Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
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amendment
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to reform (third-person singular simple present reforms, present participle reforming, simple past and past participle reformed)
- 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.
- 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.
- (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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to put into a new and improved form or condition
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to return to a good state
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