reform

reform
    n 1: a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses;
         "justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts"
    2: a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices; "the
       reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians"
    3: self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some
       vice; "the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform"
    v 1: make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and
         injustices; "reform a political system"
    2: 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" [syn: {reform}, {reclaim},
       {regenerate}, {rectify}]
    3: produce by cracking; "reform gas"
    4: break up the molecules of; "reform oil"
    5: improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and
       put into a better condition; "reform the health system in
       this country"
    6: change for the better; "The lazy student promised to reform";
       "the habitual cheater finally saw the light" [syn: {reform},
       {straighten out}, {see the light}]
    

Re-form \Re-form"\ (r?*f?rm"), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.
   {Re-formed} (-f?rmd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Re-forming}.]
   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.
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Reform \Re*form"\ (r?*f?rm"), v. t. [F. r['e]former, L.
   reformare; pref. re- re- + formare to form, from forma form.
   See {Form}.]
   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.
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         The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an
         age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
                                                  --Swift.
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   Syn: To amend; correct; emend; rectify; mend; repair; better;
        improve; restore; reclaim.
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Reform \Re*form"\, v. i.
   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.
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Reform \Re*form"\, n. [F. r['e]forme.]
   Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or
   depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of
   government.
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   {Civil service reform}. See under {Civil}.

   {Reform acts} (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in
      1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular
      representation in Parliament.

   {Reform school}, a school established by a state or city
      government, for the confinement, instruction, and
      reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of
      idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]
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   Syn: Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See
        {Reformation}.
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REFORM, v.  A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to
reformation.
    

Reform, AL (city, FIPS 64104)
  Location: 33.37956 N, 88.01670 W
  Population (1990): 2105 (878 housing units)
  Area: 20.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 35481
    

Reform, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama
   Population (2000):    1978
   Housing Units (2000): 925
   Land area (2000):     8.042385 sq. miles (20.829681 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.028421 sq. miles (0.073611 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    8.070806 sq. miles (20.903292 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            64104
   Located within:       Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
   Location:             33.380835 N, 88.015022 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     35481
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Reform, AL
    Reform
    

REFORM. To reorganize; to rearrange as, the jury "shall be reformed by 
putting to and taking out of the persons so impanelled." Stat. 3 H. VIII. c. 
12; Bac. Ab. Juries, A. 
     2. To reform an instrument in equity, is to make a decree that a deed 
or other agreement shall be made or construed as it was originally intended 
by the parties, when an error or mistake as to a fact has been committed. A 
contract has been reformed, although the party applying to the court was in 
the legal profession, and he himself drew the contract, it appearing clear 
that it was framed so as to admit of a construction inconsistent with the 
true agreement of the parties. 1 Sim. & Stu. 210; 3 Russ. R. 424. But a 
contract will not be reformed in consequence of an error of law. 1 Russ. & 
M. 418; 1 Chit. Pr. 124. 
    

241 Moby Thesaurus words for "reform":
      Fabianism, about-face, accommodate, accommodation, acculturate,
      adapt, adaptation, adjust, adjustment, advance, alter, alteration,
      ameliorate, amelioration, amend, amendment, apologize, apostasy,
      beg pardon, better, betterment, bleach, boost, bowdlerize, break,
      break up, bring forward, change, change of allegiance,
      change of heart, change of mind, changeableness, civilize, clean,
      clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear out, constructive change,
      continuity, conversion, convert, correct, correction, defection,
      deform, degeneration, degenerative change, delouse, denature,
      depurate, deterge, deterioration, deviation, difference,
      discontinuity, divergence, diversification, diversify, diversion,
      diversity, do penance, dry-clean, dust, dust off, edify, educate,
      elevate, emend, emendation, enhance, enlighten, enrich, expurgate,
      extremism, fatten, favor, fit, fitting, fix, flip-flop, forward,
      foster, freshen, give back, give salvation, go straight,
      gradual change, gradualism, improve, improve upon, improvement,
      lard, lift, lustrate, make an improvement, meliorate, melioration,
      meliorism, mend, mitigate, mitigation, modification, modify,
      modulate, modulation, mutate, new birth, new-model, nurture,
      overthrow, place in, plead guilty, progressivism, promote, purge,
      purify, put back, qualification, qualify, radical change,
      radical reform, radicalism, raise, re-create, re-creation, re-form,
      reactivate, realign, realignment, rebirth, rebuild, reclaim,
      reclamation, reconstitute, reconstruct, reconvert, recover,
      recovery, recrudescence, recruit, rectification, rectify, redeem,
      redemption, redesign, redo, reenact, reestablish, refashion,
      refill, refine upon, refit, reformation, reformism, regenerate,
      regeneration, rehabilitate, rehabilitation, reinstall, reinstate,
      reinstitute, reintegrate, reinvest, remake, remaking, remedy,
      remodel, renascence, renew, renewal, renovate, renovation,
      reorganization, reorganize, repair, repent, replace, replenish,
      reshape, reshaping, restore, restore self-respect, restructure,
      restructuring, return, revamp, reversal, revest, revise,
      revisionism, revival, revive, revivification, revolution,
      revolutionize, ring the changes, save, scavenge, set straight,
      shift, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, socialize, spruce,
      steam-clean, straighten out, subvert, sudden change, sweep out,
      sweeten, switch, think better of, tidy, total change, transfigure,
      transform, transformation, transition, turn, turn the scale,
      turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, turnabout,
      upgrade, upheaval, uplift, utopianism, variation, variety, vary,
      violent change, whiten, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up,
      work a change, worsen, worsening