reform
IPA: rʌfˈɔrm
noun
- The change of something that is defective, broken, inefficient or otherwise negative, in order to correct or improve it
- a political movement/party
verb
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits.
- (transitive, intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.
adjective
- Of Reform Judaism, its tenets, or its adherents.
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Examples of "reform" in Sentences
- The era was reformed by the king.
- The reformation is more arguable.
- The cult survived the reformation.
- The region favoured the reformation.
- The Reformed party was in the ascendant.
- The acceptance of the reform was limited.
- The reforms of the humanitarian movement.
- Is it referring to the result of the reform
- He spread the idea of the religious reformation eagerly.
- Instead of halting land reform in the area, the murder had the opposite effect.
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