Verb
- 1. reform, better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
- usage: make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices; "reform a political system"
- 2. reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify, change, alter, modify
- usage: 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"
- 3. reform, create from raw material, create from raw stuff
- usage: produce by cracking; "reform gas"
- 4. reform, change integrity
- usage: break up the molecules of; "reform oil"
- 5. reform, better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
- usage: improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition; "reform the health system in this country"
- 6. reform, straighten out, see the light, better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate
- usage: change for the better; "The lazy student promised to reform"; "the habitual cheater finally saw the light"
Adjective
- 1. Reformed, unorthodox (vs. orthodox)
- usage: of or relating to the body of Protestant Christianity arising during the Reformation; used of some Protestant churches especially Calvinist as distinct from Lutheran; "Dutch Reformed theology"
- 2. reformed, regenerate (vs. unregenerate)
- usage: caused to abandon an evil manner of living and follow a good one; "a reformed drunkard"
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