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reform

English

  1. 🔊 a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses
    “justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts”
  2. 🔊 self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice
    “the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform”
  3. 🔊 a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices
    “the reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians”
  4. 🔊 change for the better
    “The lazy student promised to reform”
  5. 🔊 make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices
    “reform a political system”
  6. 🔊 improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition
    “reform the health system in this country”
  7. 🔊 break up the molecules of
    “reform oil”
  8. 🔊 produce by cracking
    “reform gas”
  9. 🔊 bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
    “The Church reformed me”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 reformar to reform

Similar words

straighten out see the light reclaim regenerate rectify fabianism about-face accommodate accommodation acculturate adapt adaptation adjust adjustment advance alter alteration ameliorate amelioration amend amendment apologize apostasy beg pardon