reform
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~ improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition; "reform the health system in this country"
reform
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~ make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices; "reform a political system"
reform
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~ produce by cracking; "reform gas"
reform
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~ 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"
reform-minded
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~ favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
reformable
— Adjective
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~ susceptible to improvement or reform; "a redeemable sinner"
Reformation
— Noun
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~ a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches
reformation
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~ improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs
reformation
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~ rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course; "the reclamation of delinquent children"
reformative
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~ tending to reform; "reformative and rehabilitative agencies"; "reformatory punishment"
reformatory
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~ correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders
reformatory
— Adjective
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~ tending to reform; "reformative and rehabilitative agencies"; "reformatory punishment"
reformed
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~ 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"
reformed
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~ caused to abandon an evil manner of living and follow a good one; "a reformed drunkard"
reformer
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~ an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel; "a catalytic reformer"
reformer
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~ a disputant who advocates reform