reform

  1. Noun.  Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
  2. Verb.  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.
  3. Verb.  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.
  4. Verb.  (transitive, intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.

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