reform

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English

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Etymology

French réforme

Pronunciation

(US) IPA: /ɹiˈfɔrm/, /ɹəˈfɔrm/

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Noun

reform (plural reforms)

  1. Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • monetary reform

Translations

amendment

Verb

reform (third-person singular simple present reforms, present participle reforming, simple past and past participle reformed)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.
    This product contains reformed meat.
    The pop group reformed for one final tour.
    • 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, The Onion AV Club:
      Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.

Synonyms

Translations

to put into a new and improved form or condition
to return to a good state

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Swedish

Noun

reform c

  1. a reform

Declension

Declension of reform
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative reform reformen reformer reformerna
genitive reforms reformens reformers reformernas

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