reform
reform is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, transitive/intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive 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.
- intransitive verb. To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
- noun. Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
- transitive/intransitive verb. To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or to take a new form; as, to re-form the line after a charge.
- noun. a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses
"justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts"
- noun. self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice
"the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform"
- noun. a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices
"the reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians"
- verb. change for the better
"The lazy student promised to reform"
"the habitual cheater finally saw the light"
- verb. make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices
"reform a political system"
- verb. improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition
"reform the health system in this country"
- verb. break up the molecules of
"reform oil"
- verb. produce by cracking
"reform gas"
- verb. 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"
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Common word forms
reforms, reformed, reformer, reforming, reformable
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