∙ Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
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.
∙ 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.
∙ To form again or in a new configuration. transitive, intransitive
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